meaning of history
1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patients case; the history of a legislative bill.
2. A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individuals life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.
3. To narrate or record.
4. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long
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