Usually means: Occurring once every year.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word annual:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. annual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. annual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. annual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. annual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. annual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Annual, annual: Wordnik
  7. annual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. annual: Wiktionary
  9. annual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. annual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. annual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. annual: Dictionary.com
  13. annual: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. annual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Annual (Morocco), Annual (plant), Annual, The Annual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Annual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. annual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. annual: Rhymezone
  19. annual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. annual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. annual: Free Dictionary
  22. annual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. annual: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. annual: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. annual: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Annual: Investopedia
  4. annual: Legal dictionary
  5. Annual: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Annual (plant), annual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. annual: Natural Health glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. annual: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. annual: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. annual: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  2. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  3. ANNUAL: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Happening once every year.
adjective:  Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.
adjective:  (botany, of a plant) Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season; e.g. beans, corn, marigold. See Annual plant in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial.
adjective:  (entomology) Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.
noun:  An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication.
noun:  (botany) An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial.
noun:  A medical checkup taking place once a year.
noun:  (theater) A pantomime taking place once a year.

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