chronicle
English
Etymology
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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkrɑnɪkl̩/
- Hyphenation: chron‧i‧cle
Noun
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 40817384:
- 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
Related terms
- chronicler
- Chronicles
- chronist; Chronist; chronistically
- chronistic; Chronistic
- chronology; chronological
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