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noun, plural chro·nol·o·gies.the sequential order in which past events occur. a statement of this order. the science of arranging time in periods and ascertaining the dates and historical order of past events. a reference work organized according to the dates of events. Origin of chronologyFirst recorded in 1585–95; chrono- + -logy Words nearby chronologychronological, chronological age, chronological order, chronologist, chronologize, chronology, chronometer, chronometry, chronon, chronooncology, chronopher Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for chronologyAnd what McGrath is especially good at doing is painstakingly reconstructing the chronology. The Odd Story of C.S. Lewis, an Extremely Odd Man|A.N. Wilson|March 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST President Bush, in my view, wisely decided not to make his book a chronology of his administration. The George Bush I Know|Mark McKinnon|November 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST According to the new CIA chronology, that was the first briefing at which the subject of waterboarding was raised. What Did Pelosi Know?|Scott Horton|May 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST Let us go back to the chronology of his personal history, after his one opportunity of seeing the world outside of Britain. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen|William Spalding
And both sums united more than exhaust the Hebrew chronology. My Schools and Schoolmasters|Hugh Miller But the difficulties of most of the chronology are insurmountable. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D.|George Robert Stowe Mead The following are the most important contributions to the general question of the chronology. The Facts About Shakespeare|William Allan Nielson The chronology of the life of Paul cannot be fully determined from the Bible itself. Archology and the Bible|George A. Barton
British Dictionary definitions for chronology
noun plural -giesthe determination of the proper sequence of past events the arrangement of dates, events, etc, in order of occurrence a table or list of events arranged in order of occurrence Derived forms of chronologychronologist, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to chronologytabloid, publication, review, annals, account, daily, note, magazine, paper, diary, periodical, gazette, newspaper, almanac, calendar, memoir, monthly, weekly, plot, description |