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Definition of Almanac

1. Noun. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.

2. Noun. An annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year.

Definition of Almanac

1. 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.

Definition of Almanac

1. Noun. (astronomy navigation) A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Almanac

1. an annual publication containing general information [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Almanac

allœosis allœotic alma alma mater alma maters almacantar almae matres almagest almagests almagra

almah almahs almain almain-rivet almains almanac (current term) almanack almanacks almanacs almandine

almandines almandite almandites almarudite almas alme almeh almehs almemar almemars

Literary usage of Almanac

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1903)
"1830-41 title reads: " Democratic almanac and Political Register.14 ... Dunigan's Six Cent Catholic almanac and Laity's Directory. 1859. New York, 1859. ..."

2. The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an by Isaiah Thomas (1874)
"almanac. Mein and Fleming's Massachusetts Register and almanac. Boston. almanac. ... almanac. Freeman's New York Royal Sheet New York. almanac. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This monopoly was challenged by Thomas Carnan, a bookseller, who published an almanac for three successive years, after having been thrice imprisoned on ..."

4. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1907)
"The almanac, in its original and limited character a record and prophet of the weather, had come into existence in New England in 1639, and before the end ..."

5. Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster by John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler (1891)
"[Is Franklin's lifetime the almanac was the most popular form of literature in America. A few people read newspapers, but every farmer who could read at all ..."

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