Chronicler (original) (raw)

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who writes chronicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chronicler" is a kind of...):

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Instance hyponyms:

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154))

Derivation:

chronicle (record in chronological order; make a historical record)

Credits