History

Quick meaning: History is a noun meaning The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.

Meaning

The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.

More Meanings

1. The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
2. The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it.
3. (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
4. (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
5. (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
6. (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
7. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Example Sentences

He dreams of an invention that will make history.

History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.

The history of mammals stretches back many millions of years.

So, we have a shared history - we will also have a shared future.

Word Forms

• histories
• historie
• historying
• historied

Synonyms for history

Depending on context, synonyms include past, background, account, chronicle, story, tale.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chronicle, story, account, historiography, historical, historically.

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