chronicleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩/
• ハイフネーション: chron‧i‧cle

名詞

chronicle (plural chronicles)

1. A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
   • 1841, Punch, or The London Charivari:

     Also a choice cachinatory chronicle, entitled "How to Laugh, and what to Laugh at."

   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:

     Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.

使用する際の注意点

• Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle.

同意語

• (account of events and when they happened): annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version

派生語

関連する語

• chronicler
• Chronicles
• chronist; Chronist; chronistically
• chronistic; Chronistic
• chronology; chronological

動詞

chronicle (third-person singular simple present chronicles, present participle chronicling, simple past and past participle chronicled)

1. (transitive) To record in or as in a chronicle.
   • 2015, Alan Schaefer, Joe Nick Patoski, Nels Jacobson, Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982, page 17:

     The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […]

   • 2022 May 18, Steven Lee Myers, “A Panel to Combat Disinformation Becomes a Victim of It”, in The New York Times‎:

     As the board’s director, Ms. Jankowicz, 33, bore the brunt of the attacks, a subject she knows well. Her most recent book, called “How to Be a Woman Online,” chronicles abuses she and other women face from trolls and other malign actors on the internet.

   • 2022 December 9, “Wrexham: King and Queen Consort meet Hollywood royalty”, in BBC News:

     The stars also worked on a Disney+ docuseries chronicling the purchase and stewardship of the club, who currently play in the National League, which was being filmed when the King and Queen Consort visited.

同意語

• (record in a chronicle): record