How to pronounce chronicle
American English pronunciation
KRON-ih-kul
- IPA
- /ˈkɹɑnɪkəl/
- Syllables
- KRON · ih · kul (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What chronicle means
A written record of events in the order they happened
In a sentence: The town library keeps a chronicle of every big snowstorm since 1900.
Where it comes from: It came through old French and Latin from a Greek word meaning "about time," from the Greek word for time.
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