chronicler

See also: Chronicler

English

Etymology

From chronicle +‎ -er.

Noun

chronicler (plural chroniclers)

1. A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:

     But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

Synonyms

• See historian

Related terms

• See chronicle

Translations

person who writes a chronicle

Arabic: مُؤَرِّخ (muʔarriḵ), مُؤَرِّخَة f (muʔarriḵa) Armenian: ժամանակագիր (hy) (žamanakagir) Catalan: cronista m or f Czech: kronikář (cs) m French: chroniqueur (fr) m Georgian: მემატიანე (memaṭiane) German: Chronist (de) m Hungarian: krónikaíró (hu) Irish: croiniceoir m, croinicí m, oiriseach m Italian: cronista (it) m or f Malay: periwayat, pembabad Norwegian: Bokmål: kronikør m, historieskriver m Nynorsk: kronikør m Old English: tīdwrītere m Portuguese: cronista (pt) m or f Serbo-Croatian: letopisac m Spanish: cronista (es) m or f Swedish: krönikeskrivare (sv) c, krönikeförfattare c, kronist c, annalist c, krönikör (sv) c Turkish: kronikçi (tr) Welsh: croniclydd (cy) m