chronicle
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman cronicle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French cronike, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin chronica, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”)
Pronunciation
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Noun
chronicle (plural chronicles)
- A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
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- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
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Usage notes
- Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle.
Synonyms
- (account of events and when they happened): annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version
Translations
a written account
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Verb
chronicle (third-person singular simple present chronicles, present participle chronicling, simple past and past participle chronicled)
- To record in or as in a chronicle.
Synonyms
- (record in a chronicle): record