CHRONICLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronicler mean? 

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

1. someone who writes chronicles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONICLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who writes chronicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Instance hyponyms:

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154))

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler.

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

Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

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

And now set in a fell and fierce fight, one of a thousand of which no chronicler has spoken and no poet sung.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is, however, unfortunately impossible entirely to separate the sensational from the criminal, and a chronicler is left in the dilemma that he must either sacrifice details which are essential to his statement and so give a false impression of the problem, or he must use matter which chance, and not choice, has provided him with.

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