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chronicler

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chron·i·cle  (krn-kl)
n.
1. An extended account in prose or verse of historical events, sometimes including legendary material, presented in chronological order and without authorial interpretation or comment.
2. A detailed narrative record or report.
3. Chronicles (used with a sing. verb) Abbr. Chr. or Chron. or Ch See Table at Bible.
tr.v. chron·i·cled, chron·i·cling, chron·i·cles
To record in or in the form of a historical record.
[Middle English cronicle, from Anglo-Norman, alteration of Old French cronique, from Latin chronica, from Greek khronika (biblia), chronological (books), annals, neuter pl. of khronikos, of time; see chronic.]
chroni·cler (-klr) n.
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Noun1.chroniclerchronicler - someone who writes chronicles        
historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
chronicler
noun recorder, reporter, historian, narrator, scribe, diarist, annalist


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