Dictionary entry details
• HISTORY (noun)
Meaning:
The aggregate of past events
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
a critical time in the school's history
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
past; past times; yesteryear; yore (the time that has elapsed)
Meronyms (parts of "history"):
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)
Renaissance; Renascence (the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries)
Meaning:
The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
all of human history
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
continuum (a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts)
Meaning:
A record or narrative description of past events
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
chronicle; account; history; story
Context examples:
a history of France / he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president / the story of exposure to lead
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)
Domain category:
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "history"):
ancient history (a history of the ancient world)
etymology (a history of a word)
case history (detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment)
historical document; historical paper; historical record (writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.))
annals; chronological record (a chronological account of events in successive years)
biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)
recital (a detailed account or description of something)
Meaning:
The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context examples:
he teaches Medieval history / history takes the long view
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))
Domain member category:
Boston Tea Party (demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea)
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Saracen ((historically) a Muslim who opposed the crusades)
Saracen ((historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire)
Meaning:
All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context examples:
the dawn of recorded history / from the beginning of history
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
