Meaning & Definition of History in English
English⟶
History
/hɪstəri/
noun
1. The aggregate of past events
- "A critical time in the school's history"
synonym:
- history
2. 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"
synonym:
- history,
- account,
- chronicle,
- story
3. The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
- "He teaches medieval history"
- "History takes the long view"
synonym:
- history
4. The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
- "All of human history"
synonym:
- history
5. 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"
synonym:
- history
Examples of using
The history of some words is a real masterpiece. For instance, kaput. The original word was the Latin "caput" - "a head"; and the way from "a head" to "the end of everything" is rather long.
Yesterday is already history, and tomorrow, a mystery. However, today is a present of fate, and presents are supposed to bring joy.
The history that's being told is more than five hundred years old.