Meanings
alternative per ann.
- In a year.
Salt fish for dinner twice every week, or 104 times per annum, is abominable.
1876 August 15, “Mr [Charles] Reade and the Glasgow Old Man’s Home”, in North British Daily Mail, number 9,186, Glasgow: Gunn & Cameron, →OCLC, page 2, column 4 - For a year.
Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum.
1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917
Synonyms & antonyms
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
- Late Latinper annum
- Englishper annum
Borrowed from Late Latin per annum, English from the 16th century.
More words from Late Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech ročně
- ročněfor each year
Dutch per jaar
- per jaarin a year
Finnish vuosittain, joka vuosi
- vuosittainin a year
- joka vuosiin a year
- vuosittainfor each year
- vuodessafor each year
French par an
- par anfor each year
Hindi वार्षिक
- वार्षिक (vārṣik)in a year
Urdu سالانہ
- سالانہ (Salanaa)in a year
Cite this entry
per annum. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/per%20annum
“per annum.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/per%20annum. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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