History
['hɪst(ə)rɪ] or ['hɪstri]
Definition
(noun.) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; 'he teaches Medieval history'; 'history takes the long view'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the aggregate of past events; 'a critical time in the school's history'.
(noun.) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; 'all of human history'.
Edited by Ben--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To narrate or record.
Checker: Susie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Account, narration, narrative, relation, record, recital, story, CHRONICLE, ANNALS.
Editor: Manuel
Definition
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.
Edited by Daisy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are reading history, indicates a long and pleasant recreation.
Checked by Edmond
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
Checked by Desmond
Unserious Contents or Definition
The evil that men do.
Inputed by Jane
Examples
- Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We have been at some pains in this history to make plain the development of these differences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The early official history of the Royal Society (Sprat, 1667) says that this proposal hastened very much the adopt ion of a plan of organization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The history of Panama is American history purely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was mentally the new thing in history, negligent of and rather ignorant of the older things out of which his new world had arisen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its great interest for the history of thought lies in the fact that it is the result of seeking the constant in the variable, the unitary principle in the multiple phenomena of nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Although many statements may be found in works on natural history to this effect, I cannot find even one which seems to me of any weight. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I know his whole history: but we can talk about that presently. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- One of the first standing armies, of which we have any distinct account in any well authenticated history, is that of Philip of Macedon. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And if there were, they had no recording scribes to embalm their efforts in history. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Great scope is given to the natural history of man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He observes on a number of histories of whirlwinds, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Of much that looms large in our national histories we cannot tell anything. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We all have histories. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There are probably two or three concurrent and only roughly similar histories of these newer Pal?olithic men as yet, inextricably mixed up together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Philosophical Transactions furnish us with abundance of histories of earthquakes, particularly one at Oxford in 1665, by Dr. Wallis and Mr. Boyle. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- How great a part the desolating loneliness of a city plays in seductions the individual histories in the report show. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In a week a pile of the Histories was printed and bound, and ready to be sold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were plots, there were insurrections; they lie flat and colourless now in the histories like dead flowers in an old book. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- More vividly than all the written histories, the Coliseum tells the story of Rome's grandeur and Rome's decay. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The volume of _Plutarch's Lives_ which I possessed, contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I read the histories of Greece and Rome, and of England's former periods, and I watched the movements of the lady of my heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Nearly all the histories, nearly all the political literature of the last two centuries in Europe, have been written in its phraseology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The evidence of a bitter hostility between mother and father peeps out in many little things in the histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is it not plain, from this, that the histories of Emmeline and Cassy may have many counterparts? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Mandy