chronology
noun/krəˈnɒlədʒi/
/krəˈnɑːlədʒi/
(plural chronologies)
[uncountable, countable]- the order in which a series of events happened; a list of these events in order
- Historians seem to have confused the chronology of these events.
- a chronology of Mozart’s life
Extra ExamplesTopics Historyc1- That these things happened is certain, but the chronology is not.
- They were not particularly interested in chronology.
- We need to establish the exact chronology of this process.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from modern Latin chronologia, from Greek khronos ‘time’ + -logia (see -ology).
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