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his·to·ry
 history
- pronunciation:
- hI
st
ri
[or]
hI
stri
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
History comes from a Latin word for "story," "tale," or "account."
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a person associated with history |
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historian |
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conventionally associated with history |
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book, past, time |
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includes the study of history |
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social studies |
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some descriptions of periods in history |
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ancient, colonial, contemporary, modern, Paleozoic, prehistoric |
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some periods in history |
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ice age, Middle Ages, renaissance, Stone Age |
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units for measuring history |
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age, century, eon, epoch, era, generation, millennium, period |
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