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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Anglo-French
Origin: cronicle, from Latin chronica, from Greek, from chronikos; CHRONIC

chronicle

1 noun
     
chron‧i‧cle1 [countable]
a written record of a series of events, especially historical events, written in the order in which they happened
chronicle of
a chronicle of his life during the war years
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