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Annals

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.

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Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Chronicle 76% connected

An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

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History 76% connected

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a descr…

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Journal 76% connected

Daily; diurnal.

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Story 76% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Annalist 74% connected

A writer of annals.

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Annalist 74% connected

A writer of annals.

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Annalistic 74% connected

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style.

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Annalistic 74% connected

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style.

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Abstract adjective · 78% connection

existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like ‘truth’ and ‘justice’"

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Acknowledgment noun · 78% connection

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…

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Article noun · 78% connection

nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication

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Author verb · 78% connection

be the author of; "She authored this play"

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Bibliography noun · 78% connection

a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a…

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Citation noun · 78% connection

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…

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Cite noun · 78% connection

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…

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Credit noun · 78% connection

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…

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Editor noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data

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Editor program noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data

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Inspection noun · 78% connection

a formal or official examination; "the platoon stood ready for review"; "we had to wait for the inspection before we could use the ele…

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Manuscript noun · 78% connection

the form of a literary work submitted for publication

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Accounting noun · 78% connection

a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: relation, events, chronological, order, event.
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Accounting system noun · 78% connection

a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts

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Action noun · 78% connection

The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfo…

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Addition noun · 78% connection

a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a perio…

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Aeon noun · 78% connection

an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago"

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Anachronism noun · 78% connection

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by…

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Ancient adjective · 78% connection

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…

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Annual adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

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Blur noun · 78% connection

a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"

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Catastrophe noun · 78% connection

An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence,…

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Centennial adjective · 78% connection

Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

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Chronologic adjective · 78% connection

Alt. of Chronological

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Chronological adjective · 78% connection

Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.

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Cycle noun · 78% connection

An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and…

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Daybook noun · 78% connection

A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and…

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Default noun · 78% connection

A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened thr…

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Discontinuance noun · 78% connection

A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized i…

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