history

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1. history - Noun

2. history - Verb

Meaning

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.

To narrate or record.

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History is Philosophy teaching by examples. Thucydides

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. Noam Chomsky

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson

History repeats itself. English Proverb

History is constantly teaching, but it does not find many pupils. Lower Austria Proverb

Happy nations have no history. Belgian Proverb

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