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CHRONICLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A record or narrative description of past events

Example:

the story of exposure to lead

Synonyms:

account; chronicle; history; story

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("chronicle" is a kind of...):

record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)

Domain category:

history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chronicle"):

ancient history (a history of the ancient world)

etymology (a history of a word)

case history (detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment)

historical document; historical paper; historical record (writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.))

annals; chronological record (a chronological account of events in successive years)

biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)

recital (a detailed account or description of something)

Derivation:

chronicle (record in chronological order; make a historical record)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Record in chronological order; make a historical record

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "chronicle" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

chronicle (a record or narrative description of past events)

chronicler (someone who writes chronicles)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of my little problems.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, there’s no good talking any more about it, Watson; but unless some lucky chance comes our way I fear that the Norwood Disappearance Case will not figure in that chronicle of our successes which I foresee that a patient public will sooner or later have to endure.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The small matter which I have chronicled under the heading of A Study in Scarlet, and that other later one connected with the loss of the Gloria Scott, may serve as examples of this Scylla and Charybdis which are forever threatening the historian.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have shown your relish for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own little adventures.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Would that I had some brighter ending to communicate to my readers, but these are the chronicles of fact, and I must follow to their dark crisis the strange chain of events which for some days made Riding Thorpe Manor a household word through the length and breadth of England.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)