history

Nouns

  • (n) the aggregate of past events
    • a critical time in the school's history
  • (n) 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
    account, chronicle, story,
  • (n) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
    • he teaches Medieval history
    • history takes the long view
  • (n) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
    • all of human history
  • (n) 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

Synonyms

account chronicle story

Words of close approximity

histone
history department history lesson