Associations to the word «Historical»

HISTORICAL, adjective. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.

HISTORICAL, adjective. (literature) (art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.

HISTORICAL, adjective. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.

HISTORICAL, adjective. (literature) (art) Set in the past.

HISTORICAL, adjective. (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious) (obsolete) lapsed, nominal.

HISTORICAL, adjective. (grammar) Alternative term for the historic tense.

HISTORICAL, adjective. (obsolete) (biology) Alternative term for hereditary or evolutionary.

HISTORICAL, adjective. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.

HISTORICAL, adjective. Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.

HISTORICAL, adjective. (uncommon) Alternative term for historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.

HISTORICAL, adjective. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":

HISTORICAL, noun. A historical romance.

HISTORICAL FICTION, noun. A book, poem, movie, or video game based on real historical events, but in which the characters are not real, and the minor events may not be realistic.

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, noun. (linguistics) The scientific study of language change.

HISTORICAL MATERIALISM, noun. A Marxist methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, looking for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life.

HISTORICAL METHOD, noun. (historiography) The techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.

HISTORICAL PRESENT TENSE, noun. (grammar) Use of the present tense when referring to past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written.

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, noun. Research performed using the historical method.

HISTORICAL, adjective. Of or relating to the study of history; "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective".

HISTORICAL, adjective. Having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary; "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events".

HISTORICAL, adjective. Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character".

HISTORICAL, adjective. Used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; "diachronic linguistics".