Noun: annual
| Singular | annual |
| Plural | annuals |
Sample Sentences
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I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals.
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I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.
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Some routine annuals take a half hour and cost about $30. [1976, Better Homes and Gardens, volume 54, numbers 7-12, page 250:]
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Excellent work has been done by the Playgoers' Club in connection with its Christmas Pantomime Fund. Thousands of children who possibly otherwise would have little chance of witnessing one of the hardy annuals have been annually taken […] [1919, Lionel Carson, The Stage Year Book, page 67:]
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From 1852 until 1888 he was the author of every Drury Lane pantomime, or "Annuals" as in his old fashioned way he preferred to […] [1949, Albert Edward Wilson, The Story of Pantomime, page 61:]
Nouns inflected like annual
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annuālem, annuālis, related to Latin annālis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710. See: Latin Nouns '
annālis'.