history

history

noun

Definition of HISTORY

1

an account of important events in the order in which they happened <a history of the American civil rights movement during the 1960s>

Synonyms annals, chronicle, record

Related Words blog, commentary, diary, journal, memoir, reminiscence(s); autobiography, biography, life; epic, legend, narrative, saga, story, tale; archives, documentation, log, register, report; chronology, genealogy

2

a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened <we heard the whole history of her illness in excruciating detail>

Synonyms chronicle, chronology, commentary (usually commentaries), history, narration, narrative, record, report, story

Related Words version; deposition, documentation, testament, testimonial, testimony, witness; annals, blog, diary, journal, log, logbook, memoir; minutes, procès-verbal; anecdote, tale, yarn; epic, saga; gest (or geste), romance; recital, recitation; case history, case study

3

the events or experience of former times <history has many lessons to teach us, if only we would listen>

Synonyms auld lang syne, history, yesterday, yesteryear, yore

Related Words bygone; flashback; annals, chronicle, record; memoir; antiquity, long ago

Near Antonyms by-and-by, future, futurity, hereafter, offing, tomorrow; moment, now, present, today