1. annual - Noun
2. annual - Adjective
3. annual - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhere annual elections end where slavery begins. John Quincy Adams
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! Wallace Stevens
When annual elections end, there slavery begins. John Adams
The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed. Adam Smith
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. George Carlin
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent. Paul A. Baran