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chronicle
noun [ C ]
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/ˈkrɒn.ɪ.kəl/ us
/ˈkrɑː.nɪ.kəl/
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a written record of historical events:
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
a chronicle of the French Revolution
part of the name of a newspaper:
the Hampshire Chronicle
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chronicle
verb [ T ]
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/ˈkrɒn.ɪ.kəl/ us
/ˈkrɑː.nɪ.kəl/
to make a record or give details of something:
The book chronicles the writer's coming to terms with his illness.
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chronicle
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈkrɑn·ɪ·kəl/
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a record of events in the order in which they happened:
This book is the most eloquent chronicle of an empire’s downfall that I have seen.
infml The diary, although a personal story, is really a chronicle of an important period of history.
chronicle
verb [ T ]
us
/ˈkrɑn·ɪ·kəl/
to make a record or tell the history of something:
His one-man show chronicles the life of Mark Twain.
(Definition of chronicle from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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In chronicling this relationship, we note problems when the labor of adult education becomes invisible to those supervising online instructors.
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Scholars using chronicles as quarries for information concerning their specialisms badly need such aids.
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The author skillfully moves among the evidence provided by chronicles, official correspondence, biographical literature, and numismatics.
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They are also drawn from a variety of source material: poetry, statutes and ordinances, chronicles, account books.
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On its own terms, however, this is an important and stimulating work with a significance reaching far beyond the story of the family it chronicles.
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The practical adaptations of such visions, chronicled in the second half of the book, are likewise intriguing at times.
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There was a concomitant development of a sense of town history, conveyed through pageants, local chronicles and compilations of records and mayoral portraits.
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Much of the discourse of this part remains at the level of what is discussed in postconquest chronicles and annals.
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The chronicles tell us about such natural phenomena as rainy years, periods of drought, famines, locust plagues, and epidemics.
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Cases 1 and 2 are basically 'going' upwards: in a design seen as trivial net, only these cases occur and disputes are just chronicles.
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Like narratives, chronicles follow a general rule of temporal juncture.
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Unlike the chronicles, in these works the authorial voice is modestly but clearly heard.
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The lack of empirical and documentary evidence ruptured dynastic chronicles.
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In the meantime, he produced a ser ies of television prog rammes that chronicled the occupation.
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The article then surveys the development of the boom in enterprise database systems and chronicles prominent trends in those systems.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
編年史, 年代記, 大事記…
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编年史, 年代记, 大事记…
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crónica, describir, registrar…
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crônica, descrever, narrar…
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tarih kayıtları, tarih, geçmiş…
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chronique, faire la chronique de…
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kroniek, optekenen…
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kronika, zaznamenat do kroniky…
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krønike, årbog, optegne…
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risalah, penulis risalah…
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บันทึกเหตุการณ์…
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biên niên sử, ghi vào biên niên sử…
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kronika, dokumentować, prowadzić kronikę…
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krönika, skriva en krönika över…
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abad, mengabadkan…
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die Chronik, aufzeichnen…
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krønike, nedskrive, opptegne…
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хроніка, літопис, відзначати…
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хроника, летопись, вести хронику событий…
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