HISTORY as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
    Usage Example(s)
    • he teaches Medieval history
    • history takes the long view
    Hypernyms(s) history is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  2. Meaning
    • all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing
    • a body of knowledge
    Usage Example(s)
    • the dawn of recorded history
    • from the beginning of history
    Hypernyms(s) history is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  3. Meaning
    • a record or narrative description of past events
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a history of France
    • he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
    • the story of exposure to lead
    Hypernyms(s) history is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s) Derived(s)
  4. Meaning
    • the aggregate of past events
    Usage Example(s)
    • a critical time in the school’’s history
    Hypernyms(s) history is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  5. Meaning
    • the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
    Usage Example(s)
    • all of human history
    Hypernyms(s) history is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower