history
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
history/ˈhɪstri/
▶noun (pl. histories)
- 1 the study of past events.
- 2 the past considered as a whole.
■ the whole series of past events connected with someone or something.
■ an eventful past.
- 3 a continuous, typically chronological, record of past events or trends.
– phrases
be history informal be defunct, finished, or dead.
the rest is history the events succeeding those already related are so well known that they need not be recounted again.
be history informal be defunct, finished, or dead.
the rest is history the events succeeding those already related are so well known that they need not be recounted again.
– origin ME: via L. from Gk historia ‘narrative, history’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’.
'history' also found in these Oxford entries:
accolade
- adder
- age
- algebra
- ammonia
- archaeology
- art history
- assassin
- Assyriology
- backstory
- bank
- bank
- bastard
- bench
- berserk
- blatant
- bloody
- bluestocking
- budget
- bugger
- cadence
- camera
- candid
- candidate
- canvas
- career
- case history
- catastrophism
- cathedral
- CCJ
- chapel
- chapter
- cheap
- classic
- cliometrics
- cloud
- cockney
- Coventry
- criminal record
- crop
- crucial
- cull
- curry
- derive
- diary
- dollar
- dunce
- Egyptology
- engine
- epic
