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

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

1. historical(adj)

   of or relating to the study of history

   "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective"

2. historical(adj)

   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, historical(adj)

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

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

4. diachronic, historical(adj)

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

   "diachronic linguistics"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. historical(Adjective)

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

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

1. Historical(adj)

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

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?

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   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. 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.

2. Bernhard Pacher:

   We have had one friendly e-mail saying they see it the way we do, meaning these are historical objects, but 99% of the emails we received included very bad insults where history is reduced to claiming we are just greedy neo-Nazis.

3. Trevor Houser:

   As we started looking at the scale of the blackout and try to put that in historical context, it became clear this was a record-breaking event and worthy of some attention and focus just from an electric standpoint.

4. Don Gurnett:

   In a historical sense, the old idea that the solar wind will just be gradually whittled away as you go further into interstellar space is simply not true, we show with Voyager 2 -- and previously with Voyager 1 -- that there's a distinct boundary out there. It's just astonishing how fluids, including plasmas, form boundaries.

5. Vladimir Putin:

   Our predecessors understood the significance of this bridge ... and tried to complete this project a long time ago, let's hope we can fulfill this historical mission.

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