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Definition of Chronicle

Chronicle

  1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
  2. A narrative of events; a history; a record.
  3. The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.
  4. To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.

Chronicle Quotations

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. Forster

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
Heinrich Heine

A chronicle is very different from history proper.
Howard Nemerov

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
Henning Mankell
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Chronicle Translations

chronicle in Dutch is kroniek
chronicle in French is chronique
chronicle in German is Aufzeichnung {f}, Chronik

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