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his·to·ry

history

pronunciation:: hI st ri [or] hI stri
features:: Word History, Word Explorer

part of speech:	noun
inflections:	histories
definition 1:	everything that has happened in the past to people or things, or a telling of these events. He wrote a history of the Vietnam War. similar words: account, narrative, review, story
definition 2:	the field of knowledge that is concerned with past events. History is my favorite subject in school. similar words: anthropology, archaeology
definition 3:	the written record of things that happened in the past. Abraham Lincoln was a famous president in United States history. synonyms: record
definition 4:	an interesting record of past events, especially having to do with a person, place, thing, or family. Their family farm has quite a history. synonyms: account similar words: story
related words:	background, myth, novel, portrait, tale

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History comes from a Latin word for "story," "tale," or "account."

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	a person associated with history
	historian
	conventionally associated with history
	book, past, time
	includes the study of history
	social studies
	some descriptions of periods in history
	ancient, colonial, contemporary, modern, Paleozoic, prehistoric
	some periods in history
	ice age, Middle Ages, renaissance, Stone Age
	units for measuring history
	age, century, eon, epoch, era, generation, millennium, period