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chronicling

chronicling is the present participle and gerund of chronicle.

Meaning of chronicle

Verb

chronicle (third-person singular simple present chronicles, present participle chronicling, simple past and past participle chronicled)

(transitive) To record in or as in a chronicle.
- The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […]2015, Alan Schaefer, Joe Nick Patoski, Nels Jacobson, Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982, page 17
Synonyms:

record

See all 2 meanings of chronicle

Noun

chronicling (plural chroniclings)

The act by which something is chronicled.
- He had indeed listened to the garrulous chroniclings of the aged sexton, who, with bonnet in hand, had invited him to enter and see the tombs, and even the hall of which he had the charge[…]1833, Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

Forms of chronicling

plural	chroniclings

Questions about chronicling

What does chronicling mean?: Chronicling means the act by which something is chronicled.
What is chronicling the present participle and gerund of?: Chronicling is the present participle and gerund of chronicle.
What part of speech is chronicling?: Chronicling is a noun.
What is the plural of chronicling?: The plural of chronicling is chroniclings.

Words near chronicling in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: chronicling (page history and authors); chronicle (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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