historian

Noun

Meaning

One versed or well informed in history.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

historiographer chronicler antiquarian annalist record keeper chronicle durant registrar jim-crow professor history artist author scientist journalist
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Antonyms

destroyer audience conclusion conservative amateur dictator
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Hypernyms

bookman scholar human person individual animal

Hyponyms

chronicler annalist art historian

Phrases with the word

early english historian the book of sirach the historian music historian personal historian academic historian ancient historian

Examples

The historian is a prophet looking backward. Friedrich Schlegel

[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. Eric Hobsbawm

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Herodotus

The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth. Halldór Laxness

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. Marc Bloch

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. Marc Bloch

Close letter words and terms

historadiography historesin historial historianess historiaster historiated