Historic

/hɪˈstɒɹɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
2. Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
3. (now uncommon) Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
4. (grammar) Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
5. (obsolete) A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
6. (obsolete) A historian.

Example Sentences

A historic opportunity

July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.

The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.

Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15.

Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.

An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.

The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.

Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.

Synonyms for historic

Antonyms for historic

Related Words

Word Forms

• more historic
• most historic
• historick
• hystoric
• historique
• historics

Usage Notes

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