| NOUN | time | history | the aggregate of past events |
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| communication | history, account, chronicle, story | a record or narrative description of past events | |
| cognition | history | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | |
| time | history | the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | |
| cognition | history | all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing |
| Sounds | hhih'steriy; hhih'striy | |
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| Rhymes | accessory ... worry: 201 rhymes with eriy... | |
| accusatory ... zealotry: 432 rhymes with riy... | ||
| Meaning | The aggregate of past events. | |
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| Example | "a critical time in the school's history" | |
| Parts | Middle Ages, Dark Ages | The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance |
| Renaissance, Renascence | The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world | |
| antiquity | The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe | |
| historic period, age | An era of history having some distinctive feature | |
| Broader | past, past times, yesteryear | The time that has elapsed |
| Spanish | historia | |
| Catalan | història | |
| Adjectives | historic | belonging to the past |
| Meaning | The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings. | |
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| Category of | Boston Tea Party | demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped / dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor |
| Saracen | (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire | |
| Saracen | (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades | |
| historian, historiographer | A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | |
| history, account, chronicle, story | A record or narrative description of past events | |
| Broader | humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts | studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) |
| Spanish | historia | |
| Catalan | història | |
| Adjectives | historic | important in history |
| historical | of or relating to the study of history | |
| Meaning | The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future. | |
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| Example | "all of human history" | |
| Broader | continuum | A continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts |
| Spanish | historia | |
| Catalan | història | |
| Meaning | All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge. | |
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| Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis | The psychological result of perception / perception and learning and reasoning |
| Spanish | historia | |
| Catalan | història | |
| Adjectives | historic | belonging to the past |
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