CHRONICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronicle mean? 

• CHRONICLE (noun)
  The noun CHRONICLE has 1 sense:

1. a record or narrative description of past events

  Familiarity information: CHRONICLE used as a noun is very rare.

• CHRONICLE (verb)
  The verb CHRONICLE has 1 sense:

1. record in chronological order; make a historical record

  Familiarity information: CHRONICLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A record or narrative description of past events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

account; chronicle; history; story

Context example:

the story of exposure to lead

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historical document; historical paper; historical record (writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.))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

• CHRONICLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chronicle    ... he / she / it chronicles   
Past simple: chronicled   
Past participle: chronicled   
-ing form: chronicling   

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)

 Context examples 

The benefits of a Mediterranean diet are widely chronicled, but new research shows extra-virgin olive oil, a key part of the diet, may protect “against cognitive decline.”

(Study: Olive Oil Protects Brain From Alzheimer’s, VOA News)

By the way, since you are interested in these little problems, and since you are good enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you may be interested in this.

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

I may have said somewhere in this chronicle that I am too imaginative to be a really courageous man, but that I have an overpowering fear of seeming afraid.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The new image from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, is helping scientists chronicle the history and evolution of this well-studied nebula.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

If ever I permit you to chronicle any more of my little problems, Watson, I foresee that you will enliven your pages by an account of the singular adventure of the Napoleonic busts.

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

The case, said Sherlock Holmes as we chatted over our cigars that night in our rooms at Baker Street, is one where, as in the investigations which you have chronicled under the names of ‘A Study in Scarlet’ and of ‘The Sign of Four,’ we have been compelled to reason backward from effects to causes.

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

Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very strange, and mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me; for I believed in kidnappers, their exploits having frequently figured in Bessie's fireside chronicles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is a matter of history—that secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles—that Oberstein, eager to complete the coup of his lifetime, came to the lure and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in a British prison.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. Paul, there are men so caitiff that they think more of a scrivener's pen than of their lady's smile, and do their devoir in hopes that they may fill a line in a chronicle or make a tag to a jongleur's romance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this terrible agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand, and perform those other actions, which will be recorded for ever in the chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them, although attested by millions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)