Meanings
- not comparableOnce every year without fail, yearly.
The Sunshine Festival is held annually, at the end of May.
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The cult of the holiday camp has brought seasonal expresses to fresh destinations such as Penychain, in North Wales; over 250,000 people go by train annually to Butlin's holiday camps alone.
1957 July 28, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 456Minimum age of Maiasaura individuals was determined by counting the number of annually deposited lines of arrested growth (see [10 –12 ] for descriptions of skeletochronology methods).
2015 July 9, “First Reported Cases of Biomechanically Adaptive Bone Modeling in Non-Avian Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI, archived from the original on 04 Feb 202389.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.
(Can we date this quote?), “RAP Benefits for Pavement Owners”, in National Asphalt Pavement Association, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025, page 1Synonyms: perennially
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbOnce every year without fail, yearly.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwithout missing a year
adverbby the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂et-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂etnós
- Proto-Italic*atnos?
- Latinannus
- Latinannuus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinannuālis
- Anglo-Normananue
- Old Frenchanuel
- Middle Frenchannue
- Middle Englishannuel
- Englishannual
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishannually
Translations
Afrikaans jaarliks
- jaarliksonce every year
Catalan anualment
- anualmentonce every year
Danish årlig, årligt
- årligonce every year
- årligtonce every year
Dutch jaarlijks
- jaarlijksonce every year
Esperanto jare
- jareonce every year
Finnish vuosittain
- vuosittainonce every year
French annuellement
- annuellementonce every year
German jährlich
- jährlichonce every year
Hindi वार्षिक
- वार्षिक (vārṣik)once every year
Hungarian évenként, évente
- évenkéntonce every year
- éventeonce every year
- minden évbenonce every year
Icelandic árlega
- árlegaonce every year
Italian annualmente
- annualmenteonce every year
Japanese 毎年
- 毎年 (maitoshi)once every year
Latin quotannīs
- quotannīsonce every year
Norwegian Bokmål årlig
- årligonce every year
Persian سالانه
- سالانهonce every year
Polish rokrocznie, corocznie
- rokrocznieonce every year
- corocznieonce every year
Portuguese anualmente
- anualmenteonce every year
Romanian în mod anual
- în mod anualonce every year
Russian ежего́дно
- ежего́дно (ježegódno)once every year
Scottish Gaelic gach bliadhna
- gach bliadhnaonce every year
Spanish anualmente
- anualmenteonce every year
Swedish årligen
- årligenonce every year
Cite this entry
annually. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/annually
“annually.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/annually. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “annually,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/annually.
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