Definition of Historian

1. Noun. A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it.

Exact synonyms: Historiographer
Category relationships: History
Specialized synonyms: Annalist, Art Historian, Chronicler
Generic synonyms: Bookman, Scholar, Scholarly Person, Student
Specialized synonyms: Arendt, Hannah Arendt, Baeda, Beda, Bede, Saint Baeda, Saint Beda, Saint Bede, St. Baeda, St. Beda, St. Bede, The Venerable Bede, Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, Durant, Will Durant, William James Durant, Eusebius, Eusebius Of Caesarea, Franklin, John Hope Franklin, Gardiner, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Edward Gibbon, Gibbon, Herodotus, Flavius Josephus, Joseph Ben Matthias, Josephus, John Knox, Knox, Livy, Titus Livius, First Baron Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Mahan, Frederic William Maitland, Maitland, John Bach Mcmaster, Mcmaster, Mommsen, Theodor Mommsen, Barthold George Niebuhr, Niebuhr, C. Northcote Parkinson, Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson, James Harvey Robinson, Robinson, Saxo Grammaticus, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., Arthur Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Schlesinger, Stubbs, William Stubbs, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Tacitus, Thucydides, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Arnold Toynbee, Toynbee, George Otto Trevelyan, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Trevelyan, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Trevelyan, Barbara Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Tuchman, Frederick Jackson Turner, Turner, Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff, Vinogradoff, Fourth Earl Of Orford, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Walpole, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel, Wiesel, C. Vann Woodward, Comer Vann Woodward, Woodward, Xenophon
Derivative terms: Historiography

Definition of Historian

1. n. A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Definition of Historian

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Historian

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histopathology
histopathology
histophyly
histophysiology
histophysiology
histoplasma
Histoplasma capsulatum
histoplasmin
histoplasmin-latex test
histoplasmoma
histoplasmoses
histoplasmosis
histoplasmosis
historadiography
historian (current term)
historians
historic
historical
historically
historicalness
historical article
historical document
historical geographic locations
historical linguistics
historical paper
historical period
historical present
historical record
historical school

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