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Synonyms for history
ˈhɪs tə ri, ˈhɪs trihis·to·ry
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
history
History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.
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Synonyms:
account, annals, archives, autobiography, biography, chronicle, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, narrative, recital, record, register, story
Princeton's WordNet
historynoun
the aggregate of past events
"a critical time in the school's history"
history, account, chronicle, storynoun
a record or narrative description of past events
"a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
Synonyms:
score, tarradiddle, account, narrative, chronicle, tale, storey, report, fib, story, business relationship, news report, account statement, explanation, taradiddle, bill, write up, invoice, floor, accounting, narration, levelhistorynoun
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
"he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
historynoun
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
"all of human history"
historynoun
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
"the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
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storynoun
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
historynoun
Synonyms:
annals, chronicle, record, account, biography, autobiographyAssociated words:
historic, historicity, historian, historiology, historiography, clio, prehistoric
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "history":
story, historical, historic, 'histoire, histoire, historian, tale, historia, histories, background, date, past, saga, record, geschichte, historique, tradition, backgrounds, annals, stories, shi
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #102 | date | |
| #224 | report | |
| #335 | history | |
| #361 | account | |
| #364 | level | |
| #465 | register | |
| #563 | story | |
| #678 | stories | |
| #713 | log | |
| #758 | past | |
| #782 | record | |
| #813 | bill | |
| #895 | archives | |
| #1158 | score | |
| #1533 | floor | |
| #1583 | background | |
| #1921 | historical | |
| #1987 | accounting | |
| #3290 | biography | |
| #3297 | historic | |
| #3661 | memorial | |
| #4474 | explanation | |
| #4869 | tradition | |
| #6089 | tale | |
| #7496 | invoice | |
| #7802 | backgrounds | |
| #8062 | chronicle | |
| #8119 | narrative | |
| #11507 | saga | |
| #11684 | histories | |
| #12792 | autobiography | |
| #13938 | historian | |
| #16129 | memoir | |
| #17023 | storey | |
| #17055 | shi | |
| #18049 | annals | |
| #20880 | recital | |
| #24154 | historia | |
| #24549 | histoire | |
| #27597 | narration | |
| #30763 | geschichte | |
| #43323 | fib | |
| #59970 | historique |
How to use history in a sentence?
Mr. Obama, this is not your first trip to Kenya, but yesterday, you arrived riding on the wings of history.
So far, we Americans down through history have had a hard time adjusting to this concept of equality... even now, some of us are still struggling to accept the fact that all people are equal in the eyes of God.
In the wake of Justice Breyer’s retirement, I want to voice my support for President Biden in his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The Court should reflect the diversity of our country, and it is unacceptable that we have never in our nation’s history had a Black woman sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Orders have a history of very high peaks and very low troughs.
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
Translations for history
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- geskiedenisAfrikaans
- ታሪክAmharic
- istoriaAragonese
- تاريخArabic
- ইতিহাসAssamese
- tarixAzerbaijani
- тарихBashkir
- гісто́рыяBelarusian
- история, исто́рияBulgarian
- ইতিহাসBengali
- història, historialCatalan, Valencian
- storiaCorsican
- historie, dějepis, dějiny, zdravotní kartaCzech
- историChuvash
- hanes, [[hanes]] ([[meddygol]]), [[hanes]] ([[cyfrifiadurol]]), astudiaethWelsh
- beretning, historieDanish
- Verlauf, Geschichtswissenschaft, Geschichte, ErzählungGerman
- ιστορικό, ιστορίαGreek
- historioEsperanto
- registro, historia, historial, historia clínica, antecedentesSpanish
- ajalugu, haigusluguEstonian
- پیشینه, تاریخ, تاریخچه, سابقهPersian
- historiaFinnish
- søgaFaroese
- histoire, historique, passéFrench
- stairIrish
- eachdraidhScottish Gaelic
- ઈતિહાસGujarati
- היסטוריהHebrew
- तारीख़, इतिहासHindi
- istwaHaitian Creole
- történet, történelem, kórtörténet, múlt, históriaHungarian
- պատմագիտություն, պատմությունArmenian
- historiaInterlingua
- sejarahIndonesian
- historioIdo
- sagnfræði, sagaIcelandic
- precedenti, storiaItalian
- הִיסטוֹרִיָהHebrew
- 沿革, 履歴, 歴史, 経過, 診療録, 経歴, 既往歴, カルテ, 病歴Japanese
- ისტორიაGeorgian
- тарихKazakh
- ប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្រ, ប្រវត្តិ, ប្រវត្តិវិទ្យាKhmer
- ಇತಿಹಾಸKannada
- 역사, 歷史, 병력, 사학Korean
- مێژوو, dîrokKurdish
- тарыхKyrgyz
- historiaLatin
- ປະຫວັດສາດLao
- istorija, ligos istorijaLithuanian
- vēsture, slimības vēstureLatvian
- исто́ријаMacedonian
- ചരിത്രംMalayalam
- түүхMongolian
- इतिहासMarathi
- sejarahMalay
- storja, arkivjiMaltese
- သမိုင်း, အဖြစ်အပျက်ပါသောစာBurmese
- ekadaedaenigawaeNauru
- इतिहासNepali
- geschiedenisDutch
- historieNorwegian
- историOssetian, Ossetic
- [[historia]] [[choroba, historiaPolish
- documentário, histórico, [[histórico]] [[médico]], históriaPortuguese
- istorgiaRomansh
- istorie, povestireRomanian
- история, исто́рия, история болезниRussian
- इतिहासSanskrit
- pȍvēst, hìstōrija, хѝсто̄рија, ѝсто̄рија, по̏вије̄ст, pȍvijēst, ìstōrija, по̏ве̄ст, pȍvijēst bȍlēsti, anamnézaSerbo-Croatian
- ඉතිහාසය, පුරාවෘත්තයSinhala, Sinhalese
- história, dejepis, dejinySlovak
- zgodovina, zgodovinopisje, preteklostSlovene
- historiAlbanian
- berättelse, historia, historik, loggSwedish
- historiaSwahili
- வரலாறுTamil
- చరితం, చరిత, చరిత్రTelugu
- таърихTajik
- ประวัติศาสตร์Thai
- taryhTurkmen
- kasaysayanTagalog
- tarihTurkish
- тарихTatar
- تارىخUyghur, Uighur
- істо́ріяUkrainian
- تاریخ, اتہاس, ہسٹریUrdu
- tarixUzbek
- lịch sử, 歷史Vietnamese
- jenavVolapük
- taariixWolof
- געשיכטעYiddish
- 历史Chinese
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