Associations to the word «History»
Noun
- Lepidoptera
- Pomerania
- Historiography
- Catalog
- Philology
- Herodotus
- Archaeology
- Postage
- Prehistory
- Pliny
- Timeline
- Museum
- Folklore
- Genealogy
- Anthropology
- Bede
- Annal
- Mathematic
- Sociology
- Franchise
- Hegel
- Epoch
- Chronology
- Milestone
- Historian
- Emeritus
- Philosophy
- Linguistic
- Antiquity
- Colonialism
- Zoology
- Database
- Gibbon
- Textbook
- Upset
- Botany
- Civilisation
- Curator
- Twentieth
- Literature
- Bancroft
- Hitter
- Vols
- Aesthetics
- Civilization
- Ancient
- Economic
- Excerpt
- Illustrated
- Modern
- Nineteenth
- Paleontology
- Narrative
- Chronicle
- Monograph
- Natural
- Essay
- Culture
- Peoples
- Marxism
Adjective
Wiktionary
HISTORY, noun. The aggregate of past events.
HISTORY, noun. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
HISTORY, noun. (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
HISTORY, noun. (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
HISTORY, noun. (countable) (medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
HISTORY, noun. (countable) (computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
HISTORY, noun. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
HISTORY, noun. (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
HISTORY, verb. (obsolete) To narrate or record.
Dictionary definition
HISTORY, noun. The aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history".
HISTORY, noun. A record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead".
HISTORY, noun. The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view".
HISTORY, noun. The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history".
HISTORY, noun. All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history".
Wise words
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