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English noun: history | |||
| 1. | history (time) the aggregate of past events | ||
| Samples | A critical time in the school's history. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | past, past times, yesteryear | ||
| Part holonym | age, antiquity, Dark Ages, historic period, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Renascence | ||
| 2. | history (communication) a record or narrative description of past events | ||
| Samples | A history of France. He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president. The story of exposure to lead. | ||
| Synonyms | account, chronicle, story | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | record | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ancient history, annals, biography, case history, chronological record, etymology, historical document, historical paper, historical record, life, life history, life story, recital | ||
| Domain category | history | ||
| 3. | history (cognition) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | ||
| Samples | He teaches Medieval history. History takes the long view. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts | ||
| Domain category members | account, Boston Tea Party, chronicle, historian, historiographer, history, Saracen, Saracen, story | ||
| 4. | history (time) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | ||
| Samples | All of human history. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | continuum | ||
| 5. | history (cognition) all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | ||
| Samples | The dawn of recorded history. From the beginning of history. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognition, knowledge, noesis | ||
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