annal

American  

[an-l] / ˈæn l /

noun

1. a record of events of a particular year.

   an annal of the year 753.

2. a single record or entry in a historical chronicle.

   A later scribe has added to the annal.

3. one of the periodic formal reports of an organization or learned field.

   The proceedings will be published as an Annal of the Academy.

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annal British  

/ ˈænəl /

noun

1. the recorded events of one year See also annals

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Etymology

Origin of annal

Back formation from annals

Example Sentences

The man who crafts this daily puzzle, Sam Ezersky, is still ambivalent about annal, and says its longtime ban generated more complaints than any other word in the puzzle’s history.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2020

Amy Siskind’s “The List” compiles her widely read online annal of breaks from democratic tradition during 2017.

From Washington Times • Jan. 9, 2018

Is it anything more than a well-prepared annal or chronicle?

From An Ethnologist's View of History An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896 by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

It was the season of repairing of dykes and ditches in rice chronology, a much more complicated annal than might be thought.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival

It would tire a Welshman to reckon up how many aps 'tis removed from an annal; for it is of that extract, only of the younger house, like a shrimp to a lobster.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various