HISTORY Synonyms
There are 21 hypernyms of the word history. (close relations)
Definition of HISTORY
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| account | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a record or narrative description of past events • a short account of the news • a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services • a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. • grounds • importance or value • a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance • the act of informing by verbal report • an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered • the quality of taking advantage verb • be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something • keep an account of • to give an account or representation of in words • furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | ||||||||
| chronicle | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a record or narrative description of past events verb • record in chronological order; make a historical record | ||||||||
| story | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program • a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events • a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale • a record or narrative description of past events • a short account of the news • a trivial lie | ||||||||
| background | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person's social heritage: previous experience or training • the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground • information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem • extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured • relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation • the state of the environment in which a situation exists • (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear • scenery hung at back of stage verb • understate the importance or quality of | ||||||||
| past | adverb, nounadv, n | |||||||
adjective • earlier than the present time; no longer current noun • the time that has elapsed • a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) • a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past adverb • so as to pass a given point adjective satellite • of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | ||||||||
| tale | nounn | |||||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program • a trivial lie | ||||||||
| annals | nounn | |||||||
noun • reports of the work of a society or learned body etc • a chronological account of events in successive years | ||||||||
| chronology | nounn | |||||||
noun • an arrangement of events in time • a record of events in the order of their occurrence • the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events | ||||||||
| heritage | nounn | |||||||
noun • practices that are handed down from the past by tradition • any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors • that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner • hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | ||||||||
| legend | nounn | |||||||
noun • a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events • brief description accompanying an illustration | ||||||||
| lore | nounn | |||||||
noun • knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote | ||||||||
| narrative | nounn | |||||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program adjective satellite • consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | ||||||||
| record | verbv | |||||||
noun • anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events • sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove • the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had • the sum of recognized accomplishments • a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone • an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport) • a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction • a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted verb • make a record of; set down in permanent form • register electronically • indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments • be aware of | ||||||||
| saga | nounn | |||||||
noun • a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account | ||||||||
| tradition | nounn | |||||||
noun • an inherited pattern of thought or action • a specific practice of long standing | ||||||||
| log | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches • the exponent required to produce a given number • a written record of messages sent or received • a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane) • measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water verb • enter into a log, as on ships and planes • cut lumber, as in woods and forests | ||||||||
| medical history | nounn | |||||||
noun • the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient | ||||||||
