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history
English
Alternative forms
- historie (obsolete)
- hystory (nonstandard)
- hystorie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?s?t(?)r?, h?s?tr?, IPA(key): /?h?st(?)?i/, /?h?st(?)??/
- Hyphenation: his?to?ry, hist?ory
Noun
history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)
- The aggregate of past events.
- Synonyms: background, past
- The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
- (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
- (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
- Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, tale
- (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- Synonym: medical history
- (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- Synonym: log
- (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei
Translations
Verb
history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied)
- (obsolete) To narrate or record.
References
Further reading
- history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- history at OneLook Dictionary Search
- history in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "history" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 146.
- history in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Toryish, Troyish, roytish
Middle English
Noun
history
- Alternative form of historie
history From the web:
- what history forgot
- what history is taught in 11th grade
- what history is taught in 10th grade
- what history is taught in 9th grade
- what history is taught in 12th grade
- what history month is october
- what history is taught in 8th grade
- what history is taught in 7th grade
details
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di?te?lz/, /d??te?lz/
- Rhymes: -e?lz
- Hyphenation: de?tails
Verb
details
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detail
Noun
details
- plural of detail
Synonyms
- brass tacks, deets, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts; See also Thesaurus:gist
Anagrams
- Tisdale, alestid, atelids, dilates, laidest, salited
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
details
- Plural form of detail
details From the web:
- what details mean
- what details can be observed in the painting
- what details of the bunkhouse are emphasized
- what details apply to a financing contract
- what details describe the starling in the writer
- what do details mean
- what does details mean
- which details or what details
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