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chronicle

Quick Definition: report; record (in chronological order)
chronicle (krŏn'ĭ-kəl) pronunciation
n.
  1. An extended account in prose or verse of historical events, sometimes including legendary material, presented in chronological order and without authorial interpretation or comment.
  2. A detailed narrative record or report.
  3. Chronicles (used with a sing. verb) (Abbr. Chr. or Chron. or Ch) A book of the Bible.
tr.v., -cled, -cling, -cles.

To record in or in the form of a historical record.

[Middle English cronicle, from Anglo-Norman, alteration of Old French cronique, from Latin chronica, from Greek khronika (biblia), chronological (books), annals, neuter pl. of khronikos, of time. See chronic.]

chron'icler (-klər) n.





chronicle

noun

  1. A chronological record of past events: annals, history. See happen, words.
  2. A recounting of past events: account, description, history, narration, narrative, report, statement, story, version. See words.





chronicle
v

Definition: report, recount
Antonyms: hide, secret





chronicle, official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. From ancient times rulers have made certain that written records of their achievements proclaimed their glory to posterity. King Alfred of England was perhaps the first to encourage objectivity. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in lively English prose, notes the inauspicious beginnings of the British navy in A.D. 897: while pursuing the Danes, Alfred's long boats ran aground at low tide. Other chronicles of literary as well as historical interest are Tacitus' Annals (1st cent. A.D.), Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (7th cent.), Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c.1135), and Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577). Modern developments of the form include the daily metropolitan newspaper, which provides exhaustive coverage of a panorama of events, from space exploration to kitchen range experimentation; and such codifications of journalistic sources as The New York Times Index and the New York Times Idea Bankthe latter a computerized Index, which makes any name or fact instantly available.





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The noun chronicle has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a record or narrative description of past events
Synonyms: history, account, story

The verb chronicle has one meaning:

Meaning #1: record in chronological order; make a historical record





chronicle

Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica) is historical account of facts and events in chronological order. Typically equal weight is given for important events and less important events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred. This is in contrast to a narrative or history, which focuses on important events and excludes those the author does not see as important.

Nabonidus Chronicle, British Museum, London
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Nabonidus Chronicle, British Museum, London

Scholars categorize the genre of chronicle into two subgroups: live chronicles, and dead chronicles. A dead chronicle is one where the author gathers his list of events up to the time of his writing, but does not record further events as they occur. A live chronicle is where one or more authors add to a chronicle in a regular fashion, recording contemporary events shortly after they occur. Because of the immediacy of the information, historians tend to value live chronicles over dead ones.

The term often refers to a book written by a chronicler in the Middle Ages describing historical events in a country, or the lives of a nobleman or a clergyman, although it is also applied to a record of public events. Various contemporary newspapers or other periodicals have adopted chronicle as part of their name. Various fictional stories have also adopted chronicle as part of their title, to give an epic proportion impresssion to the story.

List of notable chronicles

See also

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Translations for: Chronicle

Nederlands (Dutch)
kroniek, in een kroniek schrijven

Franais (French)
chronique, annales, crire une chronique, faire la chronique des vnements, noter les vnements

Deutsch (German)
n. - Chronik
v. - aufzeichnen, niederschreiben

ή (Greek)
n. ό, ό v. ώ, ύ, ώ ( έ), ά

Italiano (Italian)
narrare, far la cronaca, annotare, cronaca, cronistoria

Portugus (Portuguese)
n. - crnica (f)
v. - narrar

Русский (Russian)
вести хронологические записи, хроника

Espaol (Spanish)
n. - crnica, anuario
v. tr. - hacer la crnica de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - krnika
v. - uppteckna

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 年代记, 编年史, 记录
v. tr. - 载入编年史

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 年代記, 編年史, 記錄
v. tr. - 載入編年史

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 年代記, 記録, 新聞
v. - 年代記に載せる, 記録にとどめる

العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) تاريخ, تسجيل الأحداث (فعل) سرد, سجل, أرخ

עברית (Hebrew)‬
n. - ‮היסטוריה, קורות, כרוניקה‬
v. tr. - ‮רשם קורות‬

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