Main entry: history
Definition: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
Usage: he teaches Medieval history; history takes the long view
Main entry: history
Definition: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
Usage: the dawn of recorded history; from the beginning of history
Main entry: history, chronicle, story, account
Definition: a record or narrative description of past events
Usage: a history of France; he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president; the story of exposure to lead
Main entry: history
Definition: the aggregate of past events
Usage: a critical time in the school's history
Main entry: history
Definition: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
Usage: all of human history