English > chronicle: 2 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A record or narrative description of past events. |
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| Synonyms | history, account, story |
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| Category | history | The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings |
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| Narrower | ancient history | A history of the ancient world |
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| annals, chronological record | A chronological account of events in successive years |
| biography, life, life story, life history | An account of the series of events making up a person's life |
| case history | Detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment |
| etymology | A history of a word |
| historical document, historical paper, historical record | writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.) |
| recital | A detailed account or description of something |
| Broader | record | Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events |
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| Spanish | crónica, historial, historia |
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| Catalan | crónica, crònica, historial, història |
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| Verbs | chronicle | record in chronological order |
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