Synonyms for historian
hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr-his·to·ri·an

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1. historian, historiographernoun

   a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

   Synonyms:
   historiographer

Matched Categories

1. • History
   • Scholar

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1. historiannoun

   Synonyms:
   chronicler, annalist, writer of history

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1. List of paraphrases for "historian":

   history, saga

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How to use historian in a sentence?

1. John Sherwood:

   As a historian, I always found it interesting that he didn't really talk about it [ his time as a POW ] unless asked, he saw it as part of his service to the country, and did n’t want to dwell on past service but what he could do today, here and now.

2. Gore Vidal:

   It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

3. Lincoln Chafee:

   Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?

4. American University:

   The hardest thing I had to do as a historian on the topic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Jews was not to rewrite history based on what we know and believe today.

5. Paul de Man:

   The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.