chronicle
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English cronicle, cronycle, from Anglo-Norman cronicle, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩/
- Hyphenation: chron‧i‧cle
Noun edit
chronicle (plural chronicles)
- A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:
- 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.
Usage notes edit
- Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle.
Synonyms edit
- (account of events and when they happened): annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version
Related terms edit
- chronicler
- Chronicles
- chronist; Chronist; chronistically
- chronistic; Chronistic
- chronology; chronological
Translations edit
a written account
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Verb edit
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 edit
- (record in a chronicle): record