chronicler
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈkrɒnɪklər/
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cronista
- The ancient chronicler recorded the key events of the kingdom's history.
- century chroniclers
- Early chroniclers
- chroniclers mention
According to to Spanish chroniclers, he burned pyres of books.
- According to to Spanish chroniclers, he burned pyres of books.
- So it's almost as if the characters are doing what they're doing and she's watching them and then writing, writing it down sort of like a a chronicler.
- And for the dream chroniclers out there, if you touch type, you have a magnificent method to chronicle your dreams.
- But Xenophon is a pretty faithful chronicler, you could say of, of his his great teacher.
Examples
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His Excellency Governor Ainslee, John Reed, the author... currently the chronicler of piracy.
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Our storytelling uses popular education models of teaching, emphasizing that we are all expert chroniclers of our own experiences.
Academic text (2012) -
A great chronicler of the black British experience.
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You are our official chronicler.
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A contemporary chronicler described the horrors that followed.
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Michael Lewis, the modern day chronicler of Wall Street, included sections of the book among his six classics of economics that everyone should read.
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Within a century, the chronicler Libanius praised the city as "mother of the laws."
Academic text (2011) -
It is I, his chronicler, who knows well his saga.
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Shakespeare called actors the abstract and the brief chroniclers of their times.
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The Elizabethan chronicler William Harrison commented on the variety of meat that graced the tables of the nobility.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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3.4
A person who studies and writes about past events
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6.2
A person who writes or records information for other people
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5.9
A person who writes a diary regularly to record daily thoughts and events
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3.0
A person who writes their daily thoughts and experiences in a diary
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3.3
A person who writes and keeps the official papers for a group
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3.8
A person who writes and saves important official information in files
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6.5
A person who makes films or photos that show real people and events
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9.9
A person who studies and writes about the past, often as an official record keeper
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7.0
A person who collects, organizes and preserves important papers and files
A person who writes a short yearly record of events in order
A person who studies and records when events happen
A person who writes history about past events, often in ancient times
A person who writes in a diary regularly to record thoughts and events
A person who writes or organizes information for others to use
A person who copies texts by hand, often in the past
A writer who worked for a newspaper in the past
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chronicler comes from the root chron- meaning 'time', the same root you see in chronicle and chronology. So a chronicler is a person who writes events in the order they happened, like keeping a timeline.