Synonyms: history
Definition: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
Usage: he teaches Medieval history; history takes the long view
Similar words: arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts
Definition: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
Usage: the college of arts and sciences
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: noesis, knowledge, cognition
Definition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: record
Definition: anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
Usage: the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques
Synonyms: history
Definition: the aggregate of past events
Usage: a critical time in the school's history
Similar words: past, past times, yesteryear
Definition: the time that has elapsed
Usage: forget the past
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: continuum
Definition: a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts