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# almanac

«almanac» in Mova's school dictionary: **A book published every year with a calendar and facts…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (almanac, almanacs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A book published every year with a calendar and facts like sunrise times, tides, the moon's phases and weather predictions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#m1)

2) A yearly book of facts and figures about a subject, like sport or a country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history, farmers used almanacs to plan planting; Benjamin Franklin wrote «Poor Richard's Almanack». Today almanacs list records and facts. Phrases: «farmer's almanac», «sports almanac».

### examples

- Grandpa checks the almanac for the full moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#x1)
- The almanac lists sunrise times for every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#x2)
- Benjamin Franklin published a famous almanac. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#x3)
- The football almanac has every score since 1888. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#x4)
- Farmers used almanacs to decide when to plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#x5)
- Old almanacs gave weather guesses, not always right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/#x6)

### note

Countable. Old spelling: almanack. Weather predictions in almanacs are not reliable science.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «almanac» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/almanac/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.