chronicle
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editchronicle (plural chronicles)
- A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
- 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 flavor.
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
Derived terms
editRelated terms
edit- chronicler
- Chronicles
- chronist; Chronist; chronistically
- chronistic; Chronistic
- chronology; chronological
Translations
edita written account
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Verb
editchronicle (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
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