history
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/
The English word “history” has 11 meanings listed here.
noun
- The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.
- The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
- 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.
- A set of events involving an entity.
- A record or narrative description of past events.
- A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- Shared experience or interaction.
- A historically significant event.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey. Attested in…
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