Princeton's WordNet

1. history(noun)

   the aggregate of past events

   "a critical time in the school's history"

2. history, account, chronicle, story(noun)

   a record or narrative description of past events

   "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

3. history(noun)

   the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

   "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"

4. history(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. history(noun)

   all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge

   "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. history(noun)ˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs tri

   the past and all the events from the past

   women throughout history; the history of medicine

2. historyˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs tri

   the study of the past

   He's a history teacher.; online history lessons

3. historyˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs tri

   a record of past events

   This book is a history of money and economics.

4. historyˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs tri

   to have done or suffered from sth before

   The murder suspect has a long history of mental illness.

Wiktionary

1. history(Noun)

   The aggregate of past events.

2. history(Noun)

   The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

3. history(Noun)

   A set of events involving an entity.

4. history(Noun)

   A record or narrative description of past events.

5. history(Noun)

   The list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

6. history(Noun)

   A record of previous user events; specifically, a browser history, a history of visited Web pages.

   I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL; oh! ... luckily I didn't clear my history.

7. history(Noun)

   Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

   I told him that if he doesn't get his act together, he's history.

Webster Dictionary

1. History(noun)

   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. History(noun)

   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

3. History(verb)

   to narrate or record

The Roycroft Dictionary

1. history

   1. A collection of epitaphs. 2. Gossip well told.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

1. HISTORY

   The evil that men do.

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