history

== English == === Alternative forms === Hx, hx (chiefly medicine) historie (obsolete) hystory (nonstandard) hystorie (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey. Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin. === Pronunciation === enPR: hĭsʹt(ə)rē (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/, /ˈhɪs.tɹi/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈhəs.tə.ɹi/, /ˈhəs.tɹi/ Hyphenation: his‧to‧ry, hist‧ory Rhymes: -ɪstəɹi, -ɪstɹi === Noun === history (countable and uncountable, plural histories) The aggregate of past events. Synonyms: background, past The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events. The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory). (countable) A set of events involving an entity. a long and sordid history (countable) A record or narrative description of past events. Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, tale (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family. Synonym: medical history (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser. Synonym: log (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant. (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction. (uncountable) A historically significant event. ==== Usage notes ==== The chief polysemic ambiguity of the word history in natural language (in a nutshell, "the past" versus "that portion of the past for which written records exist") is handled with the help of a coordinate term pair (prehistory and history) or a qualifier (recorded history), yielding clarifying phrases such as in all of human history and prehistory or in all recorded history. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== historiaster ==== Descendants ==== Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei ==== Translations ==== === Verb === history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied) (obsolete) To narrate or record. === References === === Further reading === history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “history”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. history in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. Raymond Williams (1983), “History”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 146 William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “history”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Toryish, Troyish, roytish == Middle English == === Noun === history alternative form of historie