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Root of the Week: CHRON (Tuesday)

  • Charlotte O'Connell
  • Jan 28
  • 1 min read

TUESDAY  Chronicle  (noun and verb)

A chronicle is a narrative, often specifically a historical one, that presents events in the order in which they occurred (i.e. chronological order). Various newspapers use the word chronicle in their names, for example The Daily Chronicle. 

Chronicle is also a verb, meaning to tell a story. In an autobiography, an author may chronicle the events her early life or notorious career.  A historian chronicles the rise and fall of a civilization or the beginning and end of a war.  So another word for storyteller is chronicler.

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