1. Noun
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. Noun
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 experien
3. Verb
To narrate or record.
4. Noun
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"
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5. Noun
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"
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6. Noun
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
Vocabulary classified under History
7. Noun
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"
Vocabulary classified under History
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