Definitions for history



Overview of noun history

The noun history has 5 senses? (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (49) history

(the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history")

2. (23) history, account, chronicle, story

(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")

3. (16) history

(the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view")

4. (14) history

(the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history")

5. (5) history

(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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