chronicle

KRON-ih-kulnoun

Meaning a record of events in the order they happened

Memory hook CHRON-icle: a TIME record, day by day. Sami writes down each day of the class trip in order, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, in his travel book: it is a chronicle of the trip.

Nana Lou keeps a chronicle of every family trip in a fat green notebook.

In context The old ship’s log was a day-by-day chronicle of the voyage, recording every storm, every sighting of land and every supper of salted fish.

Similar record, history, account, annals

From Greek chronika, “records of the times,” from chronos, “time.”

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