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annus horribilis noun[ S ] formaluk /ˌæn.əs həˈrɪb.ɪ.lɪs/ us /ˌæn.əs həˈrɪb.ɪ.lɪs/ a year of extremely bad events可怕的一年,多灾多难的一年 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Years & yearly academic year ad Anno Domini annual annually calendar year CE centenary church year circa interannual Julian calendar leap year liturgical year millennial year end year's end year-around year-round yearly
Examples of annus horribilis annus horribilis It was an annushorribilis for the commodities sector, where screens bled red this year. From Bloomberg The last 12 months have seemed an annushorribilis in the cryptocurrency world. From TechCrunch He is forthright about what carried him through the annushorribilis of his company's founding. From TIME The year 2011 will be remembered by many as "annushorribilis". From CNN These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |