Entry Word: history

Function: noun

Meaning: 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 autobiography, diary, journal, memoir, reminiscence(s); 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 and every last detail> — see account 1
3 the events or experience of former times <history has many lessons to teach us, if only we would listen> — see past