Almanac
['ɔːlmənæk;'ɒl-] or ['ɔlmənæk]
Definition
(noun.) an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
(noun.) an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
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Definition
(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Calendar, ephemeris, register of the year.
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Definition
n. a register of the days weeks and months of the year &c.—n. Almanog′rapher an almanac-maker.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an almanac, means variable fortunes and illusive pleasures. To be studying the signs, foretells that you will be harassed by small matters taking up your time.
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Examples
- In the New York World Almanac in the library. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- What a wonderful little almanac you are, Celia! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- THE WAY TO WEALTH, _As dearly shown in the practice of an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, Poor Richard Improved. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The clerk referring the question to them with his eye, and Mr. George not turning round from the almanac over the fire-place. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But many of us got our information at a later hour, from the almanac. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My namesake the physician's almanac could not speak more guardedly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- George, Mr. Bagnet gruffly whispers when he does turn from the almanac at last. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- One motive was the need of a measurement of time, the same motive as underlies the common interest in the calendar and almanac. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacs, and digested all I had dropped on these topics during the course of twenty-five years. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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