different between publication vs chronicle

English

Etymology

From Old French publicacion, from Latin publicatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?bl??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

publication (countable and uncountable, plural publications)

1. The act of publishing printed or other matter.
   • 1727, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, Miscellanies in Prose (Preface)

     The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others.

2. An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution.
3. The communication of information to the general public etc.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     His jealousy […] attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin p?blic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.bli.ka.sj??/

Noun

publication f (plural publications)

1. publication
2. publicizing

Related terms

• publier

Further reading

• “publication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

publication (plural publicationes)

1. publication, act or process of printing and/or publishing
2. publication, a published text or book

English

Etymology

From Middle English cronicle, cronycle, from Anglo-Norman cronicle, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek ???????? (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from ?????? (khrónos, “time”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?k?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kr?n?kl?/
• Hyphenation: chron?i?cle

Noun

chronicle (plural chronicles)

1. A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

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

Related terms

• chronicler
• Chronicles
• chronist; Chronist; chronistically
• chronistic; Chronistic
• chronology; chronological

Translations

Verb

chronicle (third-person singular simple present chronicles, present participle chronicling, simple past and past participle chronicled)

1. To record in or as in a chronicle.

Synonyms

• (record in a chronicle): record