chronicler
chronicler noun: a person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
Noun
chronicler (plural chroniclers)
- A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
- But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268
- Synonyms:
- historian
Proper noun capitalized: Chronicler
Chronicler
- The presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles and certain other books of the Tanakh.
- The Chronicler's survey of events in the history of Judah (often, but not always, from a positive perspective) is articulated through a theological framework centered on covenant. In short, the book of Chronicles recounts the faithful acts of ...2010, Tremper Longman, David E. Garland, The Expositor's Bible Commentary: 1 Chronicles-Job, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 36
- […] effort to prevent a fall back into the idolatry and apostasy that had brought on God's judgment in the first place. The Chronicler, like the postexilic prophets, did not desire a repeat of the Lord's judgment on Israel […]2019, CSB Bibles by Holman, KJV Apologetics Study Bible, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 49
- Synonyms:
- Chronist
chronicler meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic
chronicler in Tamil
- நிகழ்ச்சித் தொகுப்பாளர்
chronicler in Urdu
- پرچہ نویس
chronicler in Malayalam
- annalist, historian, archivist
- ചരിത്രകാരൻ, ചരിത്രരചയിതാവ്, ചരിത്രലേഖകൻ, ചരിത്രഗവേഷകൻ, പുരാവസ്തു ഗവേഷകൻ, പുരാതനവസ്തു സമ്പാദകൻ
chronicler in Arabic
- person who writes a chronicle
- مُؤَرِّخ muʔarriḵ, مُؤَرِّخَة muʔarriḵa
More languagesFewer languages
- chronicler in Malay
- periwayat, pembabad
Examples of chronicler in a sentence
- The sixteenth-century chroniclers tell us that areítos recited histories, which were transmitted through the generations.
- Henry Mayhew, the nineteenth-century chronicler of London's underworld, described the frenzied activity of one ratting contest.
- I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there.
Synonyms of chronicler
Forms of chronicler
| plural | chroniclers |
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Origin of chronicler
From chronicle + -er.
Questions about chronicler
- What does chronicler mean?
- Chronicler means a person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
- What is chronicler in Tamil?
- Chronicler in Tamil is நிகழ்ச்சித் தொகுப்பாளர். See Chronicler meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chronicler?
- Chronicler can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of chronicler?
- The plural of chronicler is chroniclers.
Words near chronicler in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chronicler (page history and authors); Chronicler (page history and authors); chronicler (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chronicler (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chronicler (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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