1. (noun)history the aggregate of past events
"a critical time in the school's history"
2. (noun)history, account, chronicle, story a record or narrativedescription 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. (noun)history the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
"he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
5. (noun)history 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"