history
/ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/noun3 syllables
History means: a record or narrative description of past events.
Synonyms for history3
What does history mean?5
noun
1
a record or narrative description of past events“a history of France”
2
the aggregate of past events“a critical time in the school's history”
3
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings“he teaches Medieval history”
4
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future“all of human history”
5
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge“the dawn of recorded history”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with history?1
three syllables
History in a sentence
- That's a bankrupt idea, as the history of modern politics readily shows.darinmex
- However, there are instances in history where entire peoples were successfully exterminated.hrin
- In the heart of the city, there is an institution with a golden history.Parmeet
- History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.deniko
- I'll examine the patient right away, but before let's check his medical history.marcelostockle
- The younger a country, the more vigorously it tries to acquire its history.astynk
- We can't change history, but we can learn from it.patgfisher
- This does not mean only the study of language, history or geography.unknown
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Forms of history
as a noun
- plural
- histories