Definition of history in English

WordNet

Noun Plural: histories
history - 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
		record the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"
		history the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
		ancient history knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
		etymology the study of the sources and development of words
		case history detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment
		historical document, historical paper, historical record writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
		chronological record, annals a chronological account of events in successive years
		biography, life story, life history, life an account of the series of events making up a person's life
history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
		arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"
history - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
		past times, yesteryear, past a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
		antiquity an artifact surviving from the past
		historic period, age an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
		dark ages, middle ages the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
history - 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"
		cognition, knowledge, noesis the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
history - the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

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Wiktionary

history (Noun)
The aggregate of past events.
history (Noun)
The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
history (Noun)
A set of events involving an entity.
history (Noun)
A record or narrative description of past events.
history (Noun)
The list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
history (Noun)
A record of previous user events; specifically, a browser history , a history of visited Web pages.
history (Noun)
Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
history (Verb)
To narrate or record.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

history (n.)
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.
history (n.)
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.
history (v. t.)
To narrate or record.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

history
A systematic written account comprising a chronological record of events (as affecting a city, state, nation, institution, science, or art) and usually including a philosophical explanation of the cause and origin of such events.
history
The scientific study of events from a time-related perspective and the passing on of the knowledge obtained by this study for the purpose of education.
history
the past events concerned in the development of a particular place, object, subject etc.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

history
his′to-ri, n. an account of an event: a systematic account of the origin and progress of a nation: the knowledge of facts, events, &c.: an eventful life, a past of more than common interest, as a 'woman with a history:' a drama representing historical events.—v.t. (rare) to record.—n. His′tōrian, a writer of history.—adjs. Histō′riāted, adorned with figures, esp. of men or animals, as the medieval illuminated manuscripts, capital letters, initials &c.; Histor′ic, -al, pertaining to history: containing history: derived from history: famous in history: authentic.—adv. Histor′ically.—v.t. and v.i. Histor′icise, to make, or represent as, historic.—ns. Historic′ity, historical character; Historiette′, a short history or story.—v.t. Histor′ify, to record in history.—n. Historiog′rapher, a writer of history: a professed or official historian.—adjs. Historiograph′ic, -al, pertaining to the writing of history.—adv. Historiograph′ically.—ns. Historiog′raphy, the art or employment of writing history; Historiol′ogy, the knowledge or study of history.—Historical method, the study of a subject in its historical development; Historical painting, the painting of historic scenes, or scenes in which historic figures are introduced; Historical present, the present tense used for the past, to add life and reality to the narrative, as in 'cometh' in Mark, v. 22.—Ancient history, the history of the world down to the fall of Rome, 476 A.D.; Medieval history, the history of the period between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the 16th century; Modern history, history since the beginning of the 16th century; Natural history, originally an expression including all the concrete sciences, now the science of living things: (in frequent use) zoology, esp. in so far as that is concerned with the life and habits of animals; Profane, Secular, history, the history of secular affairs as opposed to Sacred history, which deals with the events in the Bible narrative. [L.,—Gr. historia—histōr, knowing; cf. eidenai, to know, L. vidēre, Sans. vid, Eng. wit.]

Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡

history
The evil that men do.

Wikipedia

History is the study of the past. People know what has happened in the past by looking at things "from" the past: books, newspapers and letters. Libraries, archives or museums collect and keep these things for studying history. A person who studies history is called a historian. A person who study prehistory is called an archaeologist and they study artefacts like pottery and stone tools instead of written sources.

People can learn about the past by talking to people who remember things that happened in the past. This is called oral history. When people who had been slaves and American Civil War survivors got old, some historians recorded everything that they said, so that history would not be lost.

In old times people in different parts of the world kept different histories because they did not meet each other very often. Some groups of people never met each other. Medieval Europe, Ancient Rome and Ancient China all thought that they ruled the only important parts of the world and that other parts were "barbarian".

Current events, modern economic history, modern social history and modern intellectual history take very different views of the way history has affected the way that we think today.