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Chronicle vs Midnight - What's the difference?

chronicle | midnight |

As nouns the difference between chronicle and midnight

is that chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time while midnight is the middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.

As a verb chronicle

is to record in or as in a chronicle.

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

    midnight

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.
  • * :
  • "She twisted her hands behind her;
    but all the knots held good!
    She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
    They stretched and strained in the darkness,
    and the hours crawled by like years,
    Till, now, on the stroke of midnight ,
    Cold, on the stroke of midnight ,
    The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
  • The middle of the night: the moment of time, which is equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
  • Antonyms

    * noon, midday

    Derived terms

    * burn the midnight oil * midnight regulation * postmidnight

    See also

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