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annual

UK/ˈæn.ju.əl//ˈæn.ju.əl/

annual adjective: happening once every year.

Adjective

annual (not comparable)

  1. Happening once every year.
    • an annual general meeting; an annual publication
    • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of...2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
  2. Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.
    • an annual salary; average annual profits; the annual course of the sun
  3. Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season, e.g., beans, corn, marigold. See Annual plant in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial.
    Synonyms:
    yearly
  4. Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.

Noun

annual (plural annuals)

  1. An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication.
    • I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals.
  2. An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial.
    • I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.
  3. A medical checkup taking place once a year.
    • Some routine annuals take a half hour and cost about $30.1976, Better Homes and Gardens, volume 54, numbers 7-12, page 250
  4. A pantomime taking place once a year.
    • Excellent work has been done by the Playgoers' Club in connection with its Christmas Pantomime Fund. Thousands of children who possibly otherwise would have little chance of witnessing one of the hardy annuals have been annually taken […]1919, Lionel Carson, The Stage Year Book, page 67
    • From 1852 until 1888 he was the author of every Drury Lane pantomime, or "Annuals" as in his old fashioned way he preferred to […]1949, Albert Edward Wilson, The Story of Pantomime, page 61

Proper noun capitalized: Annual

Annual

  1. A town in Oriental, Morocco.

annual meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

annual in Hindi

happening once a year
वार्षिक vārṣik
of, for, or relating to a whole year
वार्षिक vārṣik
living or lasting one year or season
वार्षिक vārṣik
annual publication
वार्षिक vārṣik

annual in Tamil

வருடாந்தம், ஆண்டு, ஓராண்டு வாழும் செடியினம், ஆண்டுமலர், ஆண்டுக்கொரு முறை வெளியிடப்படும் ஏடு, ஆண்டுதோறும் நிகழ்கிற

annual in Marathi

वार्षिक

annual in Urdu

سالانَہ, سال بہ سال, ہر ایک سال بعد, سالنامَہ
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annual in Bengali
বার্ষিকী, বর্ষজীবী উদ্ভিদ, বার্ষিক, বাত্সরিক
annual in Telugu
వార్షిక vārṣika, సాంవత్సరిక sāṁvatsarika
annual in Malayalam
അനുവാർഷികമായ, സാംവത്സരികമായ, ഒരാണ്ടുമാത്രം നിലനില്ക്കുന്ന, വേനൽതോറും നശിക്കുന്ന
annual in Kannada
ವಾರ್ಷಿಕ ಗ್ರಂಥ ಪ್ರಕಟಣೆ, ವಾರ್ಷಿಕ ಸಸ್ಯ, ವರ್ಷಾಯು, ವಾರ್ಷಿಕ
annual in Odia
ବାର୍ଷିକ bārṣika
annual in Assamese
বছৰেকীয়া bosorekia
annual in Nepali
वार्षिक
annual in Pashto
کالنی kâlanay
annual in Tagalog
taunan
annual in Arabic
سَنَوِيّ sanawiyy
annual in Malay
tahunan
annual in Indonesian
tahunan
annual in Persian
سالانه sâlâne
annual in Vietnamese
niên san
annual in Myanmar
နှစ်စဉ် hnaccany, နှစ်ချုပ် hnachkyup

Examples of annual in a sentence

  • A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
  • Smith was first introduced into society at the Duchess of Grand Fenwick's annual rose garden party.
  • Good evening everyone and welcome to our 34th annual general meeting.

All 40 example sentences with annual

Synonyms of annual

Forms of annual

Noun
pluralannuals
Proper noun
alternative formAnoual

Plural of annual: annuals

Origin of annual

First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annuālem, annuālis, related to Latin annālis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710.

Borrowed from Spanish Annual.

Words formed from annual

Phrases with annual

Questions about annual

What does annual mean?
Annual means happening once every year.
What is annual in Hindi?
Annual in Hindi is वार्षिक (vārṣik). See Annual meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is annual?
Annual can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce annual?
Annual is pronounced /ˈæn.ju.əl/ (UK).

Words near annual in the dictionary

  1. annoyments
  2. annoyous
  3. annoys
  4. annoyware
  5. anns
  6. annual
  7. annual aberration
  8. annual aberrations
  9. annual accounts
  10. annual cicada
  11. annual cicadas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: annual (page history and authors); Annual (page history and authors); annual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); annual (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); annual (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); annual (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); annual (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); annual (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); annual (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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