Meaning

The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded..

Definitions by Sense

1. The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.
2. The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
3. 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.
4. (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
5. (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
6. (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
7. (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
8. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Example Sentences

The history of mammals stretches back many millions of years.

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

He dreams of an invention that will make history.

With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

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

He teaches Latin American history at the university and publishes books about the Cold War.

History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.

Word Forms

• histories
• Hx
• hx
• historie
• hystory
• hystorie
• historying
• historied

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