ANNALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annals mean? 

• ANNALS (noun)
  The noun ANNALS has 2 senses:

1. reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

2. a chronological account of events in successive years

  Familiarity information: ANNALS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("annals" is a kind of...):

journal (a periodical dedicated to a particular subject)

Derivation:

annalist (a historian who writes annals)

annalistic (relating to annals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A chronological account of events in successive years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

annals; chronological record

Hypernyms ("annals" is a kind of...):

account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)

Derivation:

annalist (a historian who writes annals)

annalistic (relating to annals)

 Context examples 

Can you rise superior to the heat and run down to Croydon with me on the off chance of a case for your annals?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is new to me in the annals of crime.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I should be glad that you should add this case to your annals, for there are points in it which make it quite unique in the criminal records of this or, I believe, of any other country.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Should you care to add the case to your annals, my dear Watson,” said Holmes that evening, “it can only be as an example of that temporary eclipse to which even the best-balanced mind may be exposed.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)