Almanac

n. yearly publication (includes a calendar, lunar cycles, farmer's advice, etc.); publication containing statistical information

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An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomical data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, 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, lists of all types, timelines, and more. The etymological origin of the word, "Almanac," is from Patristic Greek "almenichiata" and dates to before 339 A.D., prior to the origin of Arabic. It is found in Eusebius Caesarius, De Praep. Evang. III, 4. (Migne, Patrologia Graeca, XXI, 169c) The word almenichiata is [Ptolemaic?] Egyptian for the supernatural rulers of the celestial bodies according to Porphyry. See George W. H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon (Oxford, 1961) : 78
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Noun
1. an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year
(synonym) farmer's calendar
(hypernym) annual, yearbook
2. an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year
(hypernym) annual, yearbook

(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.
  

To dream of an almanac, means variable fortunes and illusive pleasures. To be studying the signs, foretells that you will be harassed by small matters taking up your time.