Chronicle
['krɒnɪk(ə)l] or ['krɑnɪkl]
Definition
(verb.) record in chronological order; make a historical record.
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Definition
(n.) An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
(n.) A narrative of events; a history; a record.
(n.) The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.
(v. t.) To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Register (of events in the order of time), diary, journal.[2]. Record, history, annals, narration, narrative, recital, account.
v. a. Record, register.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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SYN:Record, register
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Definition
n. a bare record of events in order of time: a history: (pl.) name of two of the Old Testament books: a story account.—v.t. to record.—n. Chron′icler a historian.
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Examples
- The hand and the match and the voice were then seen by John Rokesmith to belong to Mr Inspector, once meditatively active in this chronicle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One old gray-headed woman, long past work, but much revered as a sort of chronicle of the past, rose, and leaning on her staff, said--Well, chil'en! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Did History chronicle a king of men? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her sole book in such hours was the dim chronicle of memory or the sibyl page of anticipation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Who shall of these things write the chronicle? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have just written a paper for next Thursday's Chronicle, to extenuate matters a little. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There's time enough left to ye yet to fill whole chronicles. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The bill for servants' porter at the Fortune of War public house is a curiosity in the chronicles of beer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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