chronicle

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩/
• Hyphenation: chron‧i‧cle

chronicle (plural chronicles)

1. 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.

• Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle.

• (account of events and when they happened): annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version

• chronicler
• Chronicles
• chronist; Chronist; chronistically
• chronistic; Chronistic
• chronology; chronological

chronicle (third-person singular simple present chronicles, present participle chronicling, simple past and past participle chronicled)

1. To record in or as in a chronicle.

• (record in a chronicle): record