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# chronicle

«chronicle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a written record of events in the order they happened** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a chronicle, chronicles); verb (chronicle, chronicles, chronicled, chronicling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A chronicle is a written record of events in the order they happened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#m1)

2) To chronicle means to record events in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#m2)

3) «Chronicle» is a common name for newspapers and story series (The Chronicles of Narnia). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#m3)

4) (Bible) Chronicles (1 and 2 Chronicles) are books of the Old Testament that tell the history of the kings of Israel and Judah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history, monks wrote chronicles like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In English lessons, a chronological report puts events in time order (from the same Greek word «chronos», time).

### examples

- The monks kept a chronicle of every battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#x1)
- Her diary chronicles a year at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#x2)
- I'm reading The Chronicles of Narnia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#x3)
- The book of Chronicles is in the Old Testament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#x4)
- The film chronicles the life of a famous footballer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#x5)
- The town newspaper is called the Chronicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/#x6)

### note

Countable. Related: chronological (in time order). Spelling: chr- like «Christmas» sound /k/.

### In the corpora

- [Kyiv was an important town by the 10th century, and Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/7/)
- [Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.435/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chronicle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chronicle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.