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biannual

Syllables: bi·an·nu·alUK/bʌɪˈanjuːəl/US/baɪˈænjuəl/

biannual adjective: occurring twice a year; semiannual.

Adjective

biannual (not comparable)

  1. Occurring twice a year; semiannual.
    • The annual values were disaggregated into biannual values. Then the biannual values were disaggregated into quarterly values. Finally the quarterly values were disaggregated into the desired monthly values.1980, J[ose] D. Salas, J. W. Delleur, V. Yevjevich, W. L. Lane, Applied Modeling of Hydrologic Time Series, Littleton, Colo.: Water Resources Publication, →ISBN, section 8.9, page 448
    • Collection of papers presented at the workshops during the 1988 biannual symposia in February (New Orleans) and May (Innsbruck).1989, “Introduction”, in Ursula Schneider, Michael Schratz, editors, Permanent Education Between New Illiteracy and High Power Technology: 1988 Biannual Symposia, New Orleans, La.: Institute for the...
  2. (proscribed) Occurring once every two years; biennial.
    • The relative share of agriculture in GDP of the West Bank (calculated on the basis of fixed 1986 prices, and as a two-year average to deal with the major biannual fluctuations in olive production) declined[…].1993, Agriculture: An Investment in Peace (Developing the Occupied Territories; 4), Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications, →ISBN, page 1
    • Thus he argues that the members of the National Assembly were independent from the constituencies that elected them, because the latter (the assemblies, administrative and elected) are "biennially renewed," as was the National Assembly. […] This [being responsible to electors] is implicitly the...1997, Steven Blakemore, Intertextual War: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintosh, Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson...
    Synonyms:
    biennial

Noun

biannual (plural biannuals)

  1. Something occurring twice each year.
    • It was a biannual from April 1970 to October 1977 and has been a quarterly since fall 1978.1995, Tamkang Review, volume 36, Taipei: Graduate School of Western Languages and Literature, Tamkang University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 366

biannual meaning in Hindi and Urdu

biannual in Hindi

occurring twice a year; semi-annual
अर्धवार्षिक ardhavārṣik

biannual in Urdu

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Examples of biannual in a sentence

  • […] the biannual meetings between the President of the European Council and the President of the United States were formalized, there were to be two meetings per year […]1992, Simon J. Nuttall, European Political Co-operation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 286:
  • Biannual newsletter / The Society publishes a twice yearly newsletter, called "Headlines".2007 August 9, “Biannual Newsletter”, in Royal College of Nursing, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2009:
  • Under a lease, Abel is required to make biannual rent payments, one in January and one in July[…].2009, Jack P. Friedman, Jack C. Harris, Barry A. Diskin, Real Estate Handbook, 7th edition, Hauppage, N.Y.: Barron's Educational Series...

Synonyms of biannual

Forms of biannual

Adjective
alternative formbi-annual
Noun
pluralbiannuals

Origin of biannual

From bi- + annual.

Words formed from biannual

Questions about biannual

What does biannual mean?
Biannual means occurring twice a year; semiannual.
What is biannual in Hindi?
Biannual in Hindi is अर्धवार्षिक (ardhavārṣik). See Biannual meaning in Hindi.
How do you use biannual in a sentence?
[…] the biannual meetings between the President of the European Council and the President of the United States were formalized, there were to be two meetings per year […]
What part of speech is biannual?
Biannual can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce biannual?
Biannual is pronounced /bʌɪˈanjuːəl/ (UK).

Words near biannual in the dictionary

  1. biangulations
  2. bianisotropic
  3. bianisotropy
  4. Bianjing
  5. Bianliang
  6. biannual
  7. biannually
  8. biannuals
  9. biannulate
  10. biannulated
  11. bianqing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biannual (page history and authors); biannual (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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