When something is annual, it happens once a year. An annual holiday party should be a time for fun, but it also can be a sad yearly reminder of the passage of time.
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Noun
a reference book that is published regularly once every year
Noun
a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
Adjective
completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants"
Adjective
occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income"
a.
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or
happening once in the year; yearly.
a.
Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year;
as, the annual motion of the earth.
a.
Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season;
requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual
tickets.
n.
A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work
published once a year.
n.
Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or
season; an annual plant.
n.
A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object,
said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
Annual
The annual overflowing of the river [Nile].2.
A thousand pound a year, annual support.2.
Annual
Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets.3.
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
Usage Examples
I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.
I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.
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Other Usage ExamplesPoor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
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