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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : his-tuh-ree, his-tree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs tri |
Definition of history
Origin :- late 14c., "relation of incidents" (true or false), from Old French estoire, estorie "chronicle, history, story" (12c., Modern French histoire), from Latin historia "narrative of past events, account, tale, story," from Greek historia "a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one's inquiries, history, record, narrative," from historein "inquire," from histor "wise man, judge," from PIE *wid-tor-, from root *weid- "to know," literally "to see" (see vision).
- Related to Greek idein "to see," and to eidenai "to know." In Middle English, not differentiated from story; sense of "record of past events" probably first attested late 15c. As a branch of knowledge, from 1842. Sense of "systematic account (without reference to time) of a set of natural phenomena" (1560s) is now obsolete except in natural history.
- One difference between history and imaginative literature ... is that history neither anticipates nor satisfies our curiosity, whereas literature does. [Guy Davenport, "Wheel Ruts," 1996]
- noun past events, experiences
- noun chronicle of events
- The History of Man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- This is a record and result that no careful student of our history will, I take it, deny.
- Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
- There, for the first time in history, man had ceased to be a roving animal.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- History tells us of glorious friendships in the ancient world.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Our present financial condition is without a parallel in history.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- This period, beginning with 1840, has been styled "a memorable decade" in the history of Parliament.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- History is a ribbon, always unfurling; history is a journey.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- There is a man here who has earned a lasting place in our hearts and in our history.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- At such a time in history, we who are free must proclaim anew our faith.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
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