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History Meaning & Definition
History Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of History?

[n] the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
[n] 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"
[n] 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"
[n] the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
[n] the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

Synonyms | Synonyms for History: account | chronicle | story

Related Terms | Find terms related to History: account | adventures | ancient history | annals | antiquity | autobiography | background | biographical sketch | biography | bygone days | bygone times | case history | catalog | chronicle | chronicles | chronology | Clio | confessions | correspondence | curriculum vitae | days gone by | days of yore | dead letter | dead past | depiction | description | diary | documentation | epic | experience | experiences | foretime | former times | fortunes | hagiography | hagiology | historiography | information | intelligence | inventory | journal | legend | letters | life | life and letters | life story | list | martyrology | memoir | memoirs | memorabilia | memorial | memorials | Muse of history | narration | narrative | necrology | news | obituary | old hat | past | past history | past times | photobiography | pipe roll | portrayal | profile | recapitulation | recent past | recital | record | recording | register | registry | relation | relic | remains | report | representation | resume | retailing | retelling | roll | rolls | roster | rota | saga | scroll | story | summary | table | tale | telling | the irrevocable Past | the past | theory of history | thou unrelenting past | times past | token | trace | version | vestige | yesterday | yesteryear

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History In Webster's Dictionary

\His"to*ry\, n.; pl. {Histories}. [L. historia, Gr. 'istori`a history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, from the root of ? to know; akin to E. wit. See {Wit}, and cf. {Story}.] 1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill. 2. A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory. Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. --Carlyle. For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history. --Shak. What histories of toil could I declare! --Pope. {History piece}, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. {Natural history}, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses. Syn: Chronicle; annals; relation; narration. Usage: {History}, {Chronicle}, {Annals}. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history. Justly C[ae]sar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for praise. --Pope. No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast. --Shak. Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion. --Rogers.
\His"to*ry\, v. t. To narrate or record. [Obs.] --Shak.

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