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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