The meaning of History

noun

A report or description of an event or experience.

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A detailed account of what has been achieved

verb

Consider or regard in a specified way.

Usage examples:

Her visit could not be accounted a success

noun

Money kept in a bank or other organization that you can add to or take back

noun

A record of the events of one year.

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The annal for 1032

plural noun

A record of events year by year.

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Eighth-century northumberland annals

plural noun

The record of an activity or organization, arranged year by year, or a history that covers a long period of time

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This period was one of the darkest in the annals of us history.

noun

The ancient past, especially the period of classical and other human civilizations before the middle ages.

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The great civilizations of antiquity

noun

The past, esp. before the middle ages (= before the sixth century), or something of great age

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[ c ] we spent some time in the museum looking at roman antiquities.

noun

A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.

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Source materials in local archives

verb

Place or store (something) in an archive.

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The challenges involved in displaying and archiving information on the web are huge and the move to…

noun

The documents showing the history of a place, organization, or family, or the place where these are kept

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The author’s manuscripts are in the college archives., i’m doing some archival research on my famil…

noun

An account of a person's life written by that person.

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He gives a vivid description of his childhood in his autobiography

noun

The story of a person’s life as written by that person, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories

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[ u ] the book was a mixture of family history and autobiography.

noun

An account of someone's life written by someone else.

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Hey, there are people writing novels and biographies using pictures as well as words.

noun

The story of the life of a person written by someone else, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories

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[ c ] he wrote a biography of lincoln., the funeral elegy provides a treasure of biographical infor…

noun

A factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence.

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A vast chronicle of spanish history

verb

Record (a series of events) in a factual and detailed way.

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His work chronicles 20th-century migration

noun

A record of events in the order in which they happened

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This book is the most eloquent chronicle of an empire’s downfall that i have seen., infml the diary…

noun

A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge.

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In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband

noun

A written record of a person’s knowledge of events or of a person's own experiences

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She wrote a memoir about her years as a war correspondent., he’s writing his memoirs (= the story o…

noun

A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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A gripping narrative

adjective

In the form of or concerned with narration.

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A narrative poem

noun

A story or a description of events

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The novel is a wonderful narrative of wartime adventure.

noun

A thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form.

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You should keep a written record

verb

Set down in writing or some other permanent form for later reference.

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They were asked to keep a diary and record everything they ate or drank

verb

Anything providing permanent evidence about past events

verb

Give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated.

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The minister reported a decline in milk production

noun

An account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body.

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The chairman's annual report

verb

To give an account or representation of in words

noun

A long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in old norse or old icelandic.

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A figure straight out of a viking saga

noun

A long, detailed story of connected events

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The gold rush was just one chapter in the saga of the old west.

noun

An account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment.

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An adventure story

noun

Variant spelling of storey.

noun

A part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level.

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A three-storey building

noun

The devotion of time and attention to gaining knowledge of an academic subject, especially by means of books.

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The study of english

verb

Devote time and attention to gaining knowledge of (an academic subject), especially by means of books.

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I studied classics at college

verb

Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject

noun

A fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted.

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A delightful children's tale

adverb

On the day before today.

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He returned to a hero's welcome yesterday

noun

The day before today.

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Yesterday was tuesday

noun

Last year or the recent past, especially as nostalgically recalled.

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Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear

noun

A time in the past

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The hollywood stars of yesteryear