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- pronunciation:
- hI
st
ri
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hI
stri
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word History, Word Explorer
part of speech: |
noun |
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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
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definition 2: |
the field of knowledge that is concerned with past events.
History is my favorite subject in school.- similar words:
- anthropology, archaeology
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definition 3: |
the written record of things that happened in the past.
Abraham Lincoln was a famous president in United States history.- synonyms:
- record
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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
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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 |
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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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