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History   /hˈɪstəri/  /hˈɪstri/   Listen
History

noun
(pl. histories)
1.
The aggregate of past events.
2.
A record or narrative description of past events.  Synonyms: account, chronicle, story.  "He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" , "The story of exposure to lead"
3.
The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings.  "History takes the long view"
4.
The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future.
5.
All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge.  "From the beginning of history"



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"History" Quotes from Famous Books



... convulsively. His well-developed chest swelled beneath its covering of blue flannel and invisible stripe. At last, he told himself, he was in love, really in love, and at first sight, too, which made it all the more impressive. He doubted whether in the whole course of history anything like this had ever happened before to anybody. Oh, to clasp this girl ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse
... now reached the period in which began the decline and fall of the Roman empire. Its story is crowded with events, but lacks those dramatic and romantic incidents which give such interest to the history of early Rome. Now good emperors ruled, now bad ones followed, now peace prevailed, now war raged; the story grows monotonous as we advance. The reigns of virtuous emperors yield much to commend but little to describe; those of wicked emperors repel us by their ...
— Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... up Louis XV. and this girl Suzanne, how am I to know history?" replied Mademoiselle Cormon, angelically, glad to see that the dish of ducks was empty at last, and the conversation so ready to revive that all present laughed with their mouths ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac
... by chance that you were led, first, to investigate the history of the two brothers, and then to search for the plans and documents relating to ...
— The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar • Maurice Leblanc
... the modest gowan on the lea, not a flower but has blushed with the martyr's blood. But, beloved, the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church. What holy, loving lessons does God teach us by the history of the true Church, and a thoroughly consecrated people—lessons of love, hope, ...
— Gathering Jewels - The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. • James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles


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