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Chronicle vs Daily - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between chronicle and daily

is that chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time while daily is a newspaper that is published every day.

As a verb chronicle

is to record in or as in a chronicle.

As an adjective daily is

quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day.

As an adverb daily is

quotidianly, every day.

chronicle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • 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, version

    Verb

  • To record in or as in a chronicle.
  • Synonyms

    * (record in a chronicle) record

    daily

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 11
  • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • * Macaulay
  • Bunyan has told us that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
  • * Milton
  • Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
  • diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • quotidianly, every day
  • diurnally, by daylight
  • Noun

    (dailies)
  • a newspaper that is published every day.
  • (UK) a cleaner who comes in daily.
  • (UK, slang) a daily disposable.
  • (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
  • Synonyms

    * daily help * daily maid (woman only)

    See also

    * quotidian * everyday