History

  • 21history — noun (plural ries) Etymology: Middle English histoire, historie, from Anglo French estoire, histoire, from Latin historia, from Greek, inquiry, history, from histōr, istōr knowing, learned; akin to Greek eidenai to know more at wit Date: 14th… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 22history — Synonyms and related words: Clio, Muse of history, account, adventures, ancient history, annals, antiquity, autobiography, background, biographical sketch, biography, bygone days, bygone times, case history, catalog, chronicle, chronicles,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 23history — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. record, chronicle, annals, biography; story, narrative, memoirs, autobiography. See description. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A narrative] Syn. account, memoir, tale; see story . 2. [The systematic,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 24History — У этого термина существуют и другие значения, см. History (значения). history  команда в Unix системах, которая позволяет просмотреть историю работы (а именно последние 100 действий) пользователя с командной строкой. Доступна только в csh и… …

    Википедия

  • 25history —    The history and culture of contemporary Spain have been deeply affected by the emergence, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, of what came to be called the two Spains : one reformist, secularizing, liberal and European; the… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 26History —    Genuine history as inherited from ancient Greek and Roman historians (e.g., of the sort written by Thucydides) declined after Prokopios of Caesarea (q.v.), to be replaced largely by the chronicle (q.v.). Nevertheless, the influence of… …

    Historical dictionary of Byzantium

  • 27History — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. History Channel, une chaîne de télévision sur l histoire HIStory un album anthologie Michael Jackson history (Unix), un utilitaire en ligne de commande… …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 28history — noun /ˈhɪstəri,ˈhɪstri/ a) The aggregate of past events. History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes. b) The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events. Holes in your pant pockets turn your coins… …

    Wiktionary

  • 29history — [15] Etymologically, history denotes simply ‘knowledge’; its much more specific modern meaning is decidedly a secondary development. Its story begins with Greek hístōr ‘learned man’, a descendant of Indo European *wid ‘know, see’, which also… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 30history — See: GO DOWN IN HISTORY or GO DOWN IN THE RECORDS …

    Dictionary of American idioms