Definition of history

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Definition of history

  • a record or narrative description of past events (noun)

    Examples

    1. a history of France

    Synonyms

    1. account
    2. chronicle
    3. story
  • all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge (noun)

    Examples

    1. the dawn of recorded history
    2. from the beginning of history
  • the aggregate of past events (noun)

    Examples

    1. a critical time in the school's history
  • the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future (noun)

    Examples

    1. all of human history
  • the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun)

    Examples

    1. he teaches Medieval history
    2. history takes the long view

See definition of history in Merriam Webster