Chronicle vs Commentary - What's the difference?
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A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To record in or as in a chronicle.
A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
Chronicle is a related term of commentary.
As nouns the difference between chronicle and commentary
is that chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time while commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.As a verb chronicle
is to record in or as in a chronicle.chronicle
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Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle .Synonyms
* (account of events and when they happened) annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, versionVerb
Synonyms
* (record in a chronicle) recordcommentary
Noun
(commentaries)- This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).