chronicle means A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time. It carries an Arena rating of 1487, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, chronicle ranks #2,382 of 14,414 for Most Elegant Words, #2,592 of 14,423 for Most Sublime Words, #7,100 of 14,440 for Most Satisfying to Say, #7,152 of 14,445 for Most Beautiful Words.
chronicle is pronounced /ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/.
Why “chronicle” is a great word
A chronological written record of events, or the act of creating such a record. From Middle English *cronicle*, from Anglo-Norman *cronicle*, from Old French *cronike*, from Latin *chronica*, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (*khronikós*, "of or concerning time"), from χρόνος (*khrónos*, "time"). First attested in English c. 1300. Unlike “annals” (which implies a formal, often institutional, yearly register) or “narrative” (which emphasizes a shaped story with a point of view), a chronicle is an act of temporal faith, a stubborn insistence on sequence over sense. It is the monk’s ink-stained finger tracing a line of kings in a damp scriptorium, the diarist’s nightly accounting of trivial sunsets and consequential fevers, the stark ledger of births and deaths in a family bible—a humble bulwark erected against the erasing tide of forgetting, the past not as tale, but as testament.
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”).
noun
- 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."”
verb
- 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 […]”
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