chronological order

Arranged by date

Chronological order is the arrangement of events or items according to when they occurred, from earliest to latest.

A biography in chronological order begins with birth and ends with death.

List your work experience in reverse chronological order.

The phrase appears constantly in instructions for organizing information.

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timeline · sorting · annals · historiography · historical record · historical narrative · decade · before and after · century · year · calendar · diachronic · sequencing · time line · era · epoch · history book · retrospection

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Opposites
temporal sequence direction

chronological orderreverse chronology

Events ordered latest-first

reverse order

ordering principle

chronological orderrandom order

Unpredictable arrangement

alphabetical order · logical order · stream of consciousness · no particular order · disorder

Family

order, chronicle, chronology

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G