Chronicles
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Chronicles
From Chronica, St. Jerome's translation of the Hebrew title of the book, Dibhrē Hayyāmīm, literally, “The words of, things of, matters of the Days,” equivalent to dibhrē, a plural form of dābhār + hayyāmīm, equivalent to hay-, a form of ha- “the” + yāmīm, plural of yōm; chronicle ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Mulligan, 40, is set to appear in Greta Gerwig's Netflix film adaptation of the Chronicles of Narnia later this year alongside Emma Mackey, Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep.
From BBC
But then love and marriage reared its head and Burden’s story took a dark turn, which she chronicles with a keen forensic eye in her buzzy new memoir, “Strangers.”
From Los Angeles Times
Mark Higgins, an investment adviser at Irvine, Calif.-based IFA Institutional and author of “Investing in U.S. Financial History,” a book that chronicles markets from 1790 to the present, has a suggestion.
“Capturing Bigfoot” chronicles the fallout.
A new documentary, “Capturing Bigfoot” chronicles the fallout and helps explain our conspiracy-minded era.
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