# biannual

Pronunciation: say "by-AN-yoo-ul" US /baɪˈænjuəl/, UK /bʌɪˈanjuːəl/

## Adjective

1. Taking place twice in each year.
   - Simple: Happening two times every year.
   - _The two presidents agreed to hold biannual meetings, one in each capital._
   - _Members receive a biannual newsletter every spring and fall._
2. Occurring once every two years.
   - Simple: Happening once every two years.
   - _The club's biannual election, held every other year, comes around again next spring._
   - _The data were grouped into biannual periods, each covering two full years._

## Noun

3. Something that occurs twice each year, such as a journal published twice annually.
   - Simple: Something that happens two times every year, like a magazine that comes out twice a year.
   - _The review began life as a biannual and became a quarterly once its readership grew._
   - _Several small literary biannuals folded when printing costs rose._

## Origin

Formed from the prefix bi- and annual.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/biannual (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).