history
the aggregate of past events
How often you will meet it
Rank 807 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 22,519 times across 175,139 chapters — 0.011% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the aggregate of past events a critical time in the school's history
- a record or narrative description of past events also: account, chronicle, story a history of Francehe gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
- the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings he teaches Medieval historyhistory takes the long view
- the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future all of human history
- all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge the dawn of recorded historyfrom the beginning of history
history in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The siege of Paris, that siege without example in history, had commenced.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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As to the actual history of that war, it may be said that nothing is known.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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It is a medley of knowledge and fancy, history, philosophy, and poetry, written in seven languages.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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As for other studies, of geography and history and cyphering, she was almost completely ignorant of them.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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It is true there is Jorsen, by whose order, for it amounts to that, I publish this history.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1