Thesaurus: annual

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1. a. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
2. a. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
3. a. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
4. n. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
5. n. Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
6. n. A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
7. adj. completing its life cycle within a year
8. adj. occurring or payable every year
9. n. (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
10. n. a reference book that is published regularly once every year
11. 1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray. 2. 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. 2. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon. 1. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year. 2. 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. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
12. A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, saiddaily for a year or on the anniversary day.