chronology
- noun
- /krəˈnɑːlədʒi/
- Understanding the chronology of World War II is essential to grasp the events that shaped the modern world.
- chronology of events
- historical chronology
Well, we're not sure, you know, So what chronology should you have for that?
- Well, we're not sure, you know, So what chronology should you have for that?
- So that's, that's the, the dynamics and that's the chronology of that economic deal.
- So we're going to get continue this, this forward and backwards chronology, if if I can even call it such.
- So, and we can call it by different name that is nonlinear chronology.
- Now, the historian secret weapon I was told in Graduate School is chronology.
- And it's, it's not just that it's not in Luke, but Luke's, Luke's chronology doesn't work if Matthew's chronology is right.
- Well, they're both fairly, you know, early and they they are part of a chronology where you get to see things happening with Socrates.
- This is the chronology of water.
- There's always that that particular chronology at that time for all of us.
- The multi voice method, the leapy logic, the leapy narrative chronology.
- So when I was like reading all the this chronology of, of things and, and then like studying also like a lot of Physiology.
- This is why it's not the chronology of steps that somebody is going through all of this at the same time.
Examples
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The November 5 memo continues the chronology of events following the blockade of the library.
Academic text (1991) -
The following sections consist of components for lesson development and follow the chronology of Ellington's career.
Academic text (1999) -
I want to see their career chronology side by side.
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I want to map out for you the basic chronology of this era.
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History is a story, a chronology in its barest sense.
Academic text (2017) -
Don't leave any gaps in chronology; make it a continuous record.
Academic text (2012) -
There's a certain inexorable chronology in these disasters.
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John's life defies chronology and linear description.
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In history class, we created a visual timeline to illustrate the chronology of important events.
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The detective carefully documented the chronology of the suspect's actions leading up to the crime.
Synonyms
The arrangement of things in a neat sequence
A set of things or events that come one after another in a specific order
A line showing events in the order they happened
Arranging things in a particular sequence so they are easy to find
Records or journals that list events year by year
A list that shows events in the order they happened, often with dates
A list of events in the order they happened
A list of events in the order they happened
How events follow each other in time
The order of events in time
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
chronology = chron + ology
The word is formed from classical morphemes meaning roughly 'time-study', but the specific sense 'ordered arrangement or record of events' is only partly predictable for an average learner.
Etymology
Chronology comes from the Greek chronos, meaning 'time', and it shares the same root as synchronize and chronicle. So a chronology is a record or list of events arranged by when they happened.