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[his-tuh-ree, his-tree] /ˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs tri/
noun, plural histories.
the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
a history of France; a medical history of the patient.
the aggregate of past events.
a ship with a history.
Firsthand observers of our space program see history in the making.
a history of the American eagle.
a drama representing historical events:
Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies.
Origin of history
1350-1400; Middle English historie < Latin historia < Greek historía learning or knowing by inquiry, history; derivative of hístōr one who knows or sees (akin to wit2, video, Veda )
Related forms
underhistory, noun, plural underhistories.
unhistory, noun, plural unhistories.
2. record, annals. See narrative. Unabridged
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  • Even when they did pick out novels, they were just as tough as the history books.

  • The history of Man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.

    Ancient Man Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • If I have, I shall be well paid for writing the history of Bertie and his friends.

    Bertie and the Gardeners Madeline Leslie
  • This is a record and result that no careful student of our history will, I take it, deny.

    'Tis Sixty Years Since Charles Francis Adams
  • The history of the great majority is never compiled for reference.

    A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris
British Dictionary definitions for history


/ˈhɪstərɪ; ˈhɪstrɪ/
noun (pl) -ries
  2. (as modifier): a history book, a history play
the discipline of recording and interpreting past events involving human beings
past events, esp when considered as an aggregate
an event in the past, esp one that has been forgotten or reduced in importance: their quarrel was just history
the past, background, previous experiences, etc, of a thing or person: the house had a strange history
(computing) a stored list of the websites that a user has recently visited
a play that depicts or is based on historical events
a narrative relating the events of a character's life: the history of Joseph Andrews
Abbreviation (for senses 1–3) hist
Word Origin
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for history




Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang definitions & phrases for history



Finished; done with; hist: It's been history, I'd say, four months (1980s+ Students)

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history in Technology

1. A record of previous user inputs (e.g. to a command interpreter) which can be re-entered without re-typing them. The major improvement of the C shell (csh) over the Bourne shell (sh) was the addition of a command history. This was still inferior to the history mechanism on VMS which allowed you to recall previous commands as the current input line. You could then edit the command using cursor motion, insert and delete. These sort of history editing facilities are available under tcsh and GNU Emacs.
2. The history of computing (
3. See Usenet newsgroups news:soc.history and news:alt.history for discussion of the history of the world.
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The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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