Definition of "annals" []

• A chronological record of the events of successive years. (noun-plural)
• A descriptive account or record; a history: "the short and simple annals of the poor” ( Thomas Gray). (noun-plural)
• A periodical journal in which the records and reports of a learned field are compiled. (noun-plural)

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• "The term annals, though often confused with chronicles, nevertheless indicates a different class."
• "Not entirely unremembered in Alaskan annals is the summer stampede of 1898 from Fort Yukon to the bench diggings of Tarwater Hill."
• "Almost all come from monastic or mendicant milieux, and are passages in annals or chronicles of the writer's abbey."