HISTORY
\hˈɪstəɹˌi], \hˈɪstəɹˌi], \h_ˈɪ_s_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of HISTORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
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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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the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
By Princeton University
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the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
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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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the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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To narrate or record.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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To narrate or record.
By Noah Webster.
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An account of past facts and events affecting one or more nations, etc., arranged in the order of their occurrence; the branch of knowledge that studies and explains such facts.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An account of an event: a systematic account of the origin and progress of a nation: the knowledge of facts, events, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
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Historic, historical.
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Systematic account of events.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An account of facts or events, especially in the life-development of men and nations, in the order in which they happened, with their causes and effects; a narration of facts; a knowledge of facts.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A systematic account of facts and events, particularly those affecting nations or states; a narration of past events.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin, Greek] A relation, statement, or account in order and detail;— a written record or narration of facts and events in the life of a nation, state, institution, or epoch, with disquisitions on their causes and effects;— a verbal narrative; a story;— an account of the life and actions of an individual— biography;— a description of animals, plants, minerals, &c., existing on the earth, called natural history.
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- A German historian and poet; born in Neidenburg, East Prussia, Jan. 19, 1821; died at Munich, May 1, 1891. He studied severely Konigsberg home, wrote essays of deep scholarship; "Socialistic Elements Goethe's Wilhelm Meister"; tragedy, "The Death Tiberius", the ripest historical learning; "Corsica"; other most authoritative books travel description, based on close personal study. also "Euphorion", an epic, poems high repute. But his works, unsurpassed learning vivid realization spirit their times, are commanding monument genius. City Rome Middle Ages", "Lucretia Borgia", "Urban VIII"., Monuments Popes", "Athenais", need be named.