Definitions for historical
hɪˈstɔr ɪ kəl, -ˈstɒr-his·tor·i·cal

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. historicaladjective

   of or relating to the study of history

   "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective"

2. historicaladjective

   having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary

   "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events"

3. historic, historicaladjective

   belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past

   "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character"

4. diachronic, historicaladjective

   used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time

   "diachronic linguistics"

Wiktionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. historicaladjective

   Pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Historicaladjective

   of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page

Matched Categories

1. • Language

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'historical' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1827

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'historical' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3961

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'historical' in Adjectives Frequency: #243

How to pronounce historical?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say historical in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of historical in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of historical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of historical in a Sentence

1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   This is a crucial trip, even a historical one, i will be the messenger of all the people of Israel, including those who agree with me and those who don't agree with me.

2. Donald Trump:

   No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historical villains, which is done often and all the time. It's got to stop. We should not mob people in public spaces or destroy public property. There is one way to settle our disagreements -- it's called peacefully, at the ballot box. That's what we want.

3. Shawn Robbins:

   From a historical perspective, most animated sequels outside of top tier franchises have been prone to the law of diminishing returns.

4. Alan Lancz:

   China has a big influence on global growth and the turnaround since the financial crisis. With the lessening of that engine of growth and with the U.S. still fairly anemic by historical standards, it definitely concerns investors.

5. Aaron David Miller:

   This is completely out of sequence because the Israeli-Palestinian issue is primarily driven by historical wounds and overlapping claims to land and sacred space.

Images & Illustrations of historical

Popularity rank by frequency of use