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Definition of annual : 1. A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
2. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
3. Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
4. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
5. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
6. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.

Synonyms:

alpine, cereal, 00s, performed in a year, seasonal, reckoned by the term of a year, biannual, valid for one year, authority, recurring once a year, autobiography, bedding plant, one-year, each year, B.C., biography, blook, c., climber, b., bush, A.D., B.C.E., yearly, atlas, bean, academic year, anniversary, every year, year-end, cactus, once a year, bible, anthology, lasting a year, brassica, almanac, occurring every year, twelvemonth, clone, living only one growing season, year-long, bestseller

enumeration, notebook, log, inventory, invoice, treasury, scrapbook, ledger, chronicle, statement, recount, list, lexicon, cash book, dictionary, yearbook, bill, documentation, blank-book, index, logbook, menu, sum, thesaurus, check, table, history, workbook, diary, annals, repertory, roster, roll, record, detail, storybook, collection, scroll, registry, score, novel, schedule, album, summary, tally, docket, manifest, total, file, recording, journal, budget, store, tabulate, pad, census, account, calendar, itemization, register, book, waybill, catalog, daybook, count, bank-book, tablet, digest

Usage examples:

• If the movement arise from annual parallax, it is easy to see where the place of the star will be for any position of the earth. - "The Story of the Heavens", Robert Stawell Ball.
• A woman's club annual dinner. - "The Art of Public Speaking", Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein.
• Since January, when President Polk's annual message to Congress had been read in St. Louis, in the papers, St. Louis people, like the whole population of the United States, had been crazy over the California gold. - "Gold Seekers of '49", Edwin L. Sabin.