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chronicle

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɹɒnɪkəl//
  • United States//ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩//

A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

noun

  1. 1

    A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

    Also a choice cachinatory chronicle, entitled "How to Laugh, and what to Laugh at."

    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.

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”).

verb

  1. 1

    To record in or as in a chronicle.

    The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […]

    As the board’s director, Ms. Jankowicz, 33, bore the brunt of the attacks, a subject she knows well. Her most recent book, called “How to Be a Woman Online,” chronicles abuses she and other women face from trolls and other malign actors on the internet.

    The stars also worked on a Disney+ docuseries chronicling the purchase and stewardship of the club, who currently play in the National League, which was being filmed when the King and Queen Consort visited.

Forms

plural
chronicles
past tense
chronicled
past participle
chronicled
present participle
chronicling
third person singular
chronicles
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).