What does "annual" mean?
Annual: Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. A thousand pound a year, annual support. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.
- 3.A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
- 4.Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.
- 5.(R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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