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chronicle

[ kron-i-kuhl ]

noun

  1. a chronological record of events; a history.


verb (used with object)

, chron·i·cled, chron·i·cling.
  1. to record in or as in a chronicle.

    Synonyms: report, narrate, relate, recount

chronicle

/ ˈkrɒnɪkəl /

noun

  1. a record or register of events in chronological order
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to record in or as if in a chronicle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈchronicler, noun
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Other Words From

  • chroni·cler noun
  • un·chroni·cled adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chronicle1

1275–1325; Middle English cronicle < Anglo-French, variant, with -le -ule, of Old French cronique < Medieval Latin cronica (feminine singular), Latin chronica (neuter plural) < Greek chroniká annals, chronology; chronic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chronicle1

C14: from Anglo-French cronicle, via Latin chronica (pl), from Greek khronika annals, from khronikos relating to time; see chronic
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Example Sentences

River officials did not allow him to take with him the two envelopes with the manuscripts of these chronicles and other articles.

I began to write these chronicles at Bossier with the simple goal of distracting my mind from the hell in which I was immersed.

Thirst, her debut, didn’t emerge for six more years, but those post-hike chronicles provided the details that make it such a compelling read.

His resulting chronicle became a bestselling book, The Outlaw Ocean, but that only spurred Urbina to go farther.

She welcomed trail magic from strangers who followed her journey online via her frank Instagram chronicles.

This monthly series will chronicle the history of the American century as seen through the eyes of its novelists.

Reprinted with permission from WWII: A Chronicle of Soldiering by James Jones, published by the University of Chicago Press.

The San Francisco Chronicle called it "choppy and flawed," CNN "a bizarre failure."

Rather, it offers readers “a chronicle of everyday life, and the narratives which define it.”

One video that contains the searing truth about guns is the one made by the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

Without the use of these actions most of the advances we are about to chronicle would not have been effected.

It becomes the duty of the historian of the Portsmouth Road to chronicle these things, but here duty and inclination part company.

Under that first stone there were deposited a number of coins, two scrolls, and one newspaper—the Preston Chronicle.

The succeeding pages of this book contain the chronicle of the nine delightful months that followed my departure from America.

As Mr. Harwood is to appear frequently in this chronicle, it may be well to summarize briefly the facts of his history.

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