- 1. 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. Source: opted
- 2. 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. Source: opted
- 3. v. t. To narrate or record. Source: opted
- 4. n. the aggregate of past events Source: wordnet
- 5. n. a record or narrative description of past events Source: wordnet
- 6. n. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings Source: wordnet
- 7. n. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future Source: wordnet
- 8. n. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge Source: wordnet
- 9. n:100 n. the aggregate of past events n. a record or narrative description of past events n. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings n. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future Source: ecdict
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