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Definition of chronicle in English: chroniclenoun ˈkrɒnɪk(ə)lˈkrɑnək(ə)l 1A factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence. a vast chronicle of Spanish history the rebels' demands for personal freedom are conspicuous in the chronicles Example sentencesExamples - It is true that war reporting has speeded up since AD 106, the year that Trajan commissioned the column offering a picture chronicle of his Romanian campaign.
- What credibility, if any, could be ascribed to pre-Columbian and early Spanish sources, to the codices, the chronicles, and the calendar stones that were being dug up in Mexico?
- Many important texts were written in Church Slavonic and the more vernacular Old Russian, including historical chronicles, epic poems, folklore, and liturgical and legal works.
- I no longer say that I don't believe that the Torah is an accurate historical chronicle of the Jewish people.
- Byzantine chronicles described him as a restless, militant man.
- But in some ways, this feels more like a medieval chronicle than a modern history.
- The northern and central part of the South American continent was described as such in all the early chronicles and ethnohistoric accounts.
- Sources of historical data include ancient inscriptions, annals, chronicles, governmental and private estate records, maritime and commercial records, personal papers, and scientific writings.
- And, since many of our records of this time come from monastic chronicles, we of course get a very vivid picture of this side of the Vikings.
- The absence of reference to the raid of Mahmud in other sources other than the Turko-Persian chronicles remains an enigma.
- The faerie folk are mentioned in the medieval chronicles and go back even further; Chaucer describes them as something people ‘no longer’ believe in.
- Mar's death is prominently, and often luridly, described in later chronicles, and was probably exploited by the 1488 rebels as part justification for their actions.
- The accepted tools of the medieval historian's trade were the classical models of composition and rhetoric, and the materials on past events provided by verbal accounts, annals, and other chronicles.
- He also wrote the Historia Anglorum, a chronicle from 1066 to 1253, and two shorter histories, the Abbreviatio chronicorum and the Flores historiarum.
- They were compiled in medieval encyclopedias and books of wonders, and extended by the accounts provided by new chronicles or traveller's reports.
- He used a variety of sources to write his history including chronicles, biographies, records, public documents, and oral and written communications from his contemporaries.
- A British historian working in America produced a vast chronicle of the Revolution which argued that its very essence was violence and slaughter.
- The name Ukraine first appeared in twelfth century chronicles in reference to the Kyivan Rus.
- Such payments were also common in the ninth century, and both Anglo-Saxon and Frankish chronicles are full of references to rulers ‘making peace’ with the raiders.
- The town's role in the ensuing battles with the Danish Vikings was recorded in both the Anglo Saxon chronicles and in Asser's account of the life of King Alfred.
Synonyms record, written account, history, annals, archive(s), register log, diary, journal, calendar, chronology narrative, description, story - 1.1 A fictitious or factual work describing a series of events.
a chronicle of his life during the war years Example sentencesExamples - Since these issues comprise an important part of why the political process has been so difficult for Europe over the past two decades, their omission from the book leaves a regrettable gap in the chronicle.
- In my own defence I can only say that if, as Disraeli said, the best way to learn history is by reading biographies then the best obituaries are magnificent potted histories - a fabulous chronicle of the century just closed.
- TV Gallery was not a chronicle of events in the visual field, though it tried to recognize, present and analyze the most contemporary and topical processes in art.
- The transition is short, alerting the reader that the news report is shifting to storytelling form and indicating the sources for the chronicle to come.
- Coogan wants his book to be a chronicle of remarkable success.
- Nevertheless, this deceptively insightful series offers a fascinating chronicle of love - and lust - in a cold climate.
- For Novo, an urban chronicle must represent the city in its entirety and must include previously taboo and transgressive urban activities and spaces.
- He would talk of his major book, said Carpenter, ‘not as a work of fiction, but as a chronicle of actual events,’ seeing himself not so much its maker as its discoverer and historian.
- Auder's video chronicles create the impression that he carries a camera with him everywhere and that the camera inevitably mediates his perception and experience.
- Nevertheless, the book is excellent as a chronicle of events.
- Her book is a compelling chronicle of her struggles immediately following the accident, throughout the acute recovery phase, and into the early stages of rehabilitation.
- This book is a chronicle of that period of history.
- There are a host of books purporting to be Bradman biographies, but they're all more or less the same book, they're chronicles of his cricket career more than genuine lives, not the way I would think of biography.
- Harvey describes his book as a chronicle of the ‘rise and fall of the Church of Man’.
- I felt I couldn't write a second chronicle of events, that only fiction could communicate what was happening to the city and its inhabitants.
- Through photographs each family constructs a portrait chronicle of itself - a portable kit of images that bears witness to its connectedness.
- The book remains of chief importance as a chronicle of black achievement in the performing arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- They are rueful memory plays, bittersweet family chronicles, compassionate portraits of oddballs, losers, and rascals.
- A traveling show focuses on his ‘Anomie’ series, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the 20th century
- The programme is a valuable chronicle of television history, which asks challenging questions of both the audience and the television industry.
Synonyms description, portrayal, representation, depiction, impression, account, story
verb ˈkrɒnɪk(ə)lˈkrɑnək(ə)l [with object]Record (a series of events) in a factual and detailed way. his work chronicles 20th-century migration Example sentencesExamples - I'm happy that his life is no longer as he chronicled it, but I'm glad that he recorded it as it happened.
- Knight will return to work May 12 and a full report of his trip will be chronicled in the next issue of Imprint.
- His book chronicles more than three decades of efforts to protect Alabama's ‘gymnasiums of nature,’ the most unspoiled and unique wild lands in the state.
- The Vita Nuova, of course, chronicles Dante's first sight of Beatrice at age 9, his love for her until she dies as a young woman, and his subsequent view of her as an angel of redemption.
- If you've read her blog at all, you know that she has been chronicling news and insights about education for about four years now.
- Ehrenreich's searing book chronicles her experiences as a cultural explorer among America's working poor.
- Events may be minutely chronicled, with little effort at critical analysis.
- It chronicled the African-American experience through a series of ten plays.
- Based on Mervyn Peake's novel, this new horror fantasy series chronicles the story of the Groan family.
- Using photographs, illustrations and documents from the school's archives, head of history Elizabeth Sparey chronicles life at Ripon Grammar since pupils wrote with quills and had to bring their own candles to class to read by.
- The book chronicles Schroeder's remarkable rise from a soccer-loving sales clerk who dropped out of high school but later went to night classes to get his diploma before going on to study law.
- In fact, two of my favorite recent books chronicle bizarre gustatory adventures.
- This year I guess I will be chronicling my body's failing condition, although my spirit will always be strong.
- One project is chronicling the legacy of Sephardic music from different medieval Spanish cities.
- The film chronicles the life, career and ‘disappearance’ of tango singer Ada Falcon.
- The scope and impact of extensive administrative change over more than a decade cannot be chronicled in detail in a short article.
- Here are five of the wildest records ever chronicled by The Guinness Book of Records, plus five impostors.
- The Parkside area also has a proud sporting tradition and it is chronicled in great detail in this publication.
- It chronicled many events over the years in Laois from work related activities to social occasions.
- A strength of Hall's book is his attention to detail in chronicling Poteat's life.
Synonyms record, put on record, write down, set down, document, register, report, enter narrate, relate, recount, describe, tell about, retail
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French cronicle, variant of Old French cronique, via Latin from Greek khronika 'annals', from khronikos (see chronic). anachronism from mid 17th century: An anachronism, something which is wrongly placed in a particular period, comes from Greek anakhronismos, from ana- ‘backwards or against’ and khronos ‘time’. The latter is the source of other time-related words such as chronicle (Middle English), chronometer (mid 18th century) a ‘time measurer’, chronological (mid 16th century), and synchronize (early 17th century) ‘to make the same time’. See also chronic
Rhymes canonical, conical, ironical Definition of chronicle in US English: chroniclenounˈkrɑnək(ə)lˈkränək(ə)l 1A factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence. Example sentencesExamples - He also wrote the Historia Anglorum, a chronicle from 1066 to 1253, and two shorter histories, the Abbreviatio chronicorum and the Flores historiarum.
- A British historian working in America produced a vast chronicle of the Revolution which argued that its very essence was violence and slaughter.
- Such payments were also common in the ninth century, and both Anglo-Saxon and Frankish chronicles are full of references to rulers ‘making peace’ with the raiders.
- The faerie folk are mentioned in the medieval chronicles and go back even further; Chaucer describes them as something people ‘no longer’ believe in.
- Sources of historical data include ancient inscriptions, annals, chronicles, governmental and private estate records, maritime and commercial records, personal papers, and scientific writings.
- What credibility, if any, could be ascribed to pre-Columbian and early Spanish sources, to the codices, the chronicles, and the calendar stones that were being dug up in Mexico?
- They were compiled in medieval encyclopedias and books of wonders, and extended by the accounts provided by new chronicles or traveller's reports.
- The town's role in the ensuing battles with the Danish Vikings was recorded in both the Anglo Saxon chronicles and in Asser's account of the life of King Alfred.
- I no longer say that I don't believe that the Torah is an accurate historical chronicle of the Jewish people.
- And, since many of our records of this time come from monastic chronicles, we of course get a very vivid picture of this side of the Vikings.
- Mar's death is prominently, and often luridly, described in later chronicles, and was probably exploited by the 1488 rebels as part justification for their actions.
- The accepted tools of the medieval historian's trade were the classical models of composition and rhetoric, and the materials on past events provided by verbal accounts, annals, and other chronicles.
- Many important texts were written in Church Slavonic and the more vernacular Old Russian, including historical chronicles, epic poems, folklore, and liturgical and legal works.
- He used a variety of sources to write his history including chronicles, biographies, records, public documents, and oral and written communications from his contemporaries.
- Byzantine chronicles described him as a restless, militant man.
- It is true that war reporting has speeded up since AD 106, the year that Trajan commissioned the column offering a picture chronicle of his Romanian campaign.
- The name Ukraine first appeared in twelfth century chronicles in reference to the Kyivan Rus.
- But in some ways, this feels more like a medieval chronicle than a modern history.
- The northern and central part of the South American continent was described as such in all the early chronicles and ethnohistoric accounts.
- The absence of reference to the raid of Mahmud in other sources other than the Turko-Persian chronicles remains an enigma.
Synonyms record, written account, history, annals, archive, archives, register - 1.1 A work of fiction or nonfiction that describes a particular series of events.
Example sentencesExamples - The book remains of chief importance as a chronicle of black achievement in the performing arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Her book is a compelling chronicle of her struggles immediately following the accident, throughout the acute recovery phase, and into the early stages of rehabilitation.
- For Novo, an urban chronicle must represent the city in its entirety and must include previously taboo and transgressive urban activities and spaces.
- A traveling show focuses on his ‘Anomie’ series, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the 20th century
- Auder's video chronicles create the impression that he carries a camera with him everywhere and that the camera inevitably mediates his perception and experience.
- There are a host of books purporting to be Bradman biographies, but they're all more or less the same book, they're chronicles of his cricket career more than genuine lives, not the way I would think of biography.
- They are rueful memory plays, bittersweet family chronicles, compassionate portraits of oddballs, losers, and rascals.
- He would talk of his major book, said Carpenter, ‘not as a work of fiction, but as a chronicle of actual events,’ seeing himself not so much its maker as its discoverer and historian.
- This book is a chronicle of that period of history.
- Through photographs each family constructs a portrait chronicle of itself - a portable kit of images that bears witness to its connectedness.
- Since these issues comprise an important part of why the political process has been so difficult for Europe over the past two decades, their omission from the book leaves a regrettable gap in the chronicle.
- I felt I couldn't write a second chronicle of events, that only fiction could communicate what was happening to the city and its inhabitants.
- The transition is short, alerting the reader that the news report is shifting to storytelling form and indicating the sources for the chronicle to come.
- Harvey describes his book as a chronicle of the ‘rise and fall of the Church of Man’.
- In my own defence I can only say that if, as Disraeli said, the best way to learn history is by reading biographies then the best obituaries are magnificent potted histories - a fabulous chronicle of the century just closed.
- Nevertheless, the book is excellent as a chronicle of events.
- TV Gallery was not a chronicle of events in the visual field, though it tried to recognize, present and analyze the most contemporary and topical processes in art.
- The programme is a valuable chronicle of television history, which asks challenging questions of both the audience and the television industry.
- Nevertheless, this deceptively insightful series offers a fascinating chronicle of love - and lust - in a cold climate.
- Coogan wants his book to be a chronicle of remarkable success.
Synonyms description, portrayal, representation, depiction, impression, account, story
verbˈkrɑnək(ə)lˈkränək(ə)l [with object]Record (a related series of events) in a factual and detailed way. his work chronicles 20th-century displacement and migration Example sentencesExamples - The book chronicles Schroeder's remarkable rise from a soccer-loving sales clerk who dropped out of high school but later went to night classes to get his diploma before going on to study law.
- Based on Mervyn Peake's novel, this new horror fantasy series chronicles the story of the Groan family.
- One project is chronicling the legacy of Sephardic music from different medieval Spanish cities.
- This year I guess I will be chronicling my body's failing condition, although my spirit will always be strong.
- The scope and impact of extensive administrative change over more than a decade cannot be chronicled in detail in a short article.
- If you've read her blog at all, you know that she has been chronicling news and insights about education for about four years now.
- His book chronicles more than three decades of efforts to protect Alabama's ‘gymnasiums of nature,’ the most unspoiled and unique wild lands in the state.
- Knight will return to work May 12 and a full report of his trip will be chronicled in the next issue of Imprint.
- Here are five of the wildest records ever chronicled by The Guinness Book of Records, plus five impostors.
- It chronicled the African-American experience through a series of ten plays.
- The Vita Nuova, of course, chronicles Dante's first sight of Beatrice at age 9, his love for her until she dies as a young woman, and his subsequent view of her as an angel of redemption.
- Using photographs, illustrations and documents from the school's archives, head of history Elizabeth Sparey chronicles life at Ripon Grammar since pupils wrote with quills and had to bring their own candles to class to read by.
- It chronicled many events over the years in Laois from work related activities to social occasions.
- Ehrenreich's searing book chronicles her experiences as a cultural explorer among America's working poor.
- The film chronicles the life, career and ‘disappearance’ of tango singer Ada Falcon.
- I'm happy that his life is no longer as he chronicled it, but I'm glad that he recorded it as it happened.
- In fact, two of my favorite recent books chronicle bizarre gustatory adventures.
- Events may be minutely chronicled, with little effort at critical analysis.
- The Parkside area also has a proud sporting tradition and it is chronicled in great detail in this publication.
- A strength of Hall's book is his attention to detail in chronicling Poteat's life.
Synonyms record, put on record, write down, set down, document, register, report, enter
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French cronicle, variant of Old French cronique, via Latin from Greek khronika ‘annals’, from khronikos (see chronic). |