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Definition of History
1. Noun. The aggregate of past events. "A critical time in the school's history"
Terms within: Antiquity, Age, Historic Period, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Renascence
Derivative terms: Historic
2. Noun. A record or narrative description of past events. "The story of exposure to lead"
Specialized synonyms: Ancient History, Etymology, Case History, Historical Document, Historical Paper, Historical Record, Annals, Chronological Record, Biography, Life, Life History, Life Story, Recital
Generic synonyms: Record
Derivative terms: Chronicle, Historic
3. Noun. The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings. "History takes the long view"
Generic synonyms: Arts, Humanistic Discipline, Humanities, Liberal Arts
Derivative terms: Historic, Historical
4. Noun. The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future. "All of human history"
5. Noun. All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge. "From the beginning of history"
Definition of History
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.
2. v. t. To narrate or record.
Definition of History
1. Noun. The aggregate of past events. ¹
2. Noun. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events. ¹
3. Noun. A set of events involving an entity. ¹
4. Noun. A record or narrative description of past events. ¹
5. Noun. (medicine) The list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family. ¹
6. Noun. (computing) A record of previous user events; ''specifically'', a browser history, a history of visited Web pages. ¹
7. Noun. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant. ¹
8. Verb. (obsolete) To narrate or record. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of History
1. a chronological record of past events [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of History
1. Origin: L.historia, Gr. 'istoria history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, from the root of to know; akin to E. Wit. See Wit, and cf. Story. 1. 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. 2. 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. "Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul." (Carlyle) "For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history." (Shak) "What histories of toil could I declare!" (Pope) History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc, of any real event, including the actors and the action. Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc, and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses. Synonym: Chronicle, annals, relation, narration. History, Chronicle, Annals. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history. "Justly Caesar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for praise." (Pope) "No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast." (Shak) "Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion." (Rogers) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of History
Literary usage of History
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"THERE is a view of the history of mankind, by this time How rtw •'. familiarised to
Englishmen, which detaches from the chaos ..."
2. Historical Survey of Pre-Christian Education by Simon Somerville Laurie (1907)
"For the history of the education of a people is not the history of its schools,
but the history of its civilisation ; and its civilisation finds its record ..."
3. The Church Historians of Englandby Joseph Stevenson by Joseph Stevenson (1853)
"Vol. 1, pt. 2 continues pagination of v. 1, pt. 1, announced but never published; v. 5, pt. 2 also never published."
4. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"THE EARLY history OF OXFORD. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. To the question 'At what
date does the history of Oxford begin?' more than one answer may be given ..."
5. The Rise of the Mediaeval Church and Its Influence on the Civilisation of by Alexander Clarence Flick (1909)
"Ecclesiastical history excluded since the Reformation by political history. III.
... Renaissance of interest in Church history. V.— Pedagogical value and ..."
6. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"THERE is a view of the history of mankind, by this time How the familiarised to
Englishmen, which detaches from the chaos ..."
7. The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures by John Robert Seeley (1883)
"IT is a favourite maxim of mine that, history, while it should be scientific in its
... Now if this maxim be sound, the history of England ought to end with ..."
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