ANNALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annalist mean? 

• ANNALIST (noun)
  The noun ANNALIST has 1 sense:

1. a historian who writes annals

  Familiarity information: ANNALIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A historian who writes annals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Derivation:

annals (a chronological account of events in successive years)

annals (reports of the work of a society or learned body etc)