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- pronunciation:
- aen
yu
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- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective, noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
happening once every year.
The annual meeting of the board members is tomorrow.The county's annual fair is a popular event. |
| definition 2: |
of or pertaining to a year; yearly.
His annual salary hasn't changed since he joined the company.The annual membership fee is five hundred dollars. |
| related words: |
periodical, terminal |
adverb + (adj.)annual
roughly
(adj.)annual
+ noun
appropriation,
attendance,
auction,
average,
award,
banquet,
basis,
bonus,
budget,
carbon,
catch,
celebration,
ceremony,
charity,
checkup,
compensation,
competition,
concert,
conference,
consumption,
contest,
contribution,
convention,
cost,
crop,
cycle,
deficit,
dinner,
dividend,
earnings,
emission,
event,
exam,
exhibition,
expenditure,
expense,
fee,
fest,
festival,
fund-raiser,
fund-raising,
gain,
gala,
gathering,
growth,
harvest,
holiday,
household,
income,
increase,
inflation,
inspection,
landing,
luncheon,
maintenance,
mammogram,
meeting,
membership,
migration,
mortality,
operating,
output,
parade,
pay,
payment,
pension,
percentage,
pilgrimage,
precipitation,
premium,
production,
profit,
questionnaire,
quota,
rainfall,
ranking,
rate,
rent,
report,
return,
reunion,
revenue,
review,
rite,
ritual,
salary,
sale,
sales,
scholarship,
session,
shareholder,
shower,
snowfall,
spending,
storage,
subscription,
subsidy,
summit,
survey,
total,
tournament,
tuition,
turnover,
vacation,
variation,
visit,
visitor,
wage,
yield
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a plant that grows for only one year or season.
Corn and lettuce are annuals. |
| definition 2: |
a periodical published once each year; yearbook.
Did you see your picture in the annual? |
| related words: |
periodical |
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| derivation: |
annually (adv.) |
The word annual
contains the following parts:
ann, enn
Latin
root
that means year, years
  Example words:
annals, anniversary, annual, annuity, biannual, biennial, centennial, decennial, perennial, quadrennial, quinquennial, semiannual, septennial, sesquicentennial, superannuated, tercentenary, tricentennial, triennial, vicennial
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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