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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A usually chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events: a history of the Vikings.
  • n. A formal written account of related natural phenomena: a history of volcanoes.
  • n. A record of a patient's medical background.
  • n. An established record or pattern of behavior: an inmate with a history of substance abuse.
  • n. The branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events: "History has a long-range perspective” ( Elizabeth Gurley Flynn).
  • n. The past events relating to a particular thing: The history of their rivalry is full of intrigue.
  • n. The aggregate of past events or human affairs: basic tools used throughout history.
  • n. An interesting past: a house with history.
  • n. Something that belongs to the past: Their troubles are history now.
  • n. Slang One that is no longer worth consideration: Why should we worry about him? He's history!
  • n. A drama based on historical events: the histories of Shakespeare.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The aggregate of past events.
  • n. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
  • n. A set of events involving an entity.
  • n. A record or narrative description of past events.
  • n. The list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
  • n. A record of previous user events; specifically, a browser history, a history of visited Web pages.
  • n. Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
  • v. To narrate or record.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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
  • n. 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.
  • v. To narrate or record.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A narrative, oral or written, of past events; a story: as, a history of England; a history of the civil war; a history of an individual.
  • n. The recorded events of the past; also, that branch of science which is occupied with ascertaining and recording the facts of the past.
  • n. Recorded or accomplished fact; also, the aggregate of the events, recorded or unrecorded, which mark a given period of past time, as in the development of an individual or of a race, etc.: as, a checkered history.
  • n. An eventful career; a past worthy of record: as, a man with a history.
  • n. In liturgics, in medieval English uses, as in the Use of Sarum, the series of responsories to a set of lections from the historical or other books of Scripture.
  • n. A historical play or drama.
  • To record; relate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
  • n. the aggregate of past events
  • n. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
  • n. a record or narrative description of past events
  • n. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    annals    narration    relation    chronicle    narrative    description    historiology    past    story    tale   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    mystery    protohistory   
    Unknown
    History   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    story    character    science    knowledge    Life    parsing    truth    grammar    return    preparation