history

Noun
  1. The aggregate of past events (synset 115146348)
    "a critical time in the school's history"
    is a type of: past, past times, yesteryear - the time that has elapsed
    has:
    • antiquity - the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
    • age, historic period - an era of history having some distinctive feature
    • dark ages, middle ages - the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
    • renaissance, renascence - the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
  2. A record or narrative description of past events (synset 106526084)
    "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
    referred to in: history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
    is a type of: record - anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
    subtypes:
    same as: account, chronicle, story
  3. The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (synset 106165265)
    "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
    associated with:
    • boston tea party - demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea
    • account, chronicle, history, story - a record or narrative description of past events
    • historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
    • saracen - (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades
    • saracen - (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire
    is a type of: arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
  4. The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future (synset 115148913)
    "all of human history"
    is a type of: continuum - a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts
  5. All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing;
    A body of knowledge (synset 106166450)
    "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
    is a type of: cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

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