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HISTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
Example:
history takes the long view
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))
Domain member category:
Boston Tea Party (demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea)
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Saracen ((historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades)
Saracen ((historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire)
Derivation:
historic (important in history)
historical (of or relating to the study of history)
Sense 2
Meaning:
All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
Example:
from the beginning of history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
Derivation:
historic (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A record or narrative description of past events
Example:
the story of exposure to lead
Synonyms:
account; chronicle; history; story
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)
Domain category:
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "history"):
ancient history (a history of the ancient world)
etymology (a history of a word)
case history (detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment)
historical document; historical paper; historical record (writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.))
annals; chronological record (a chronological account of events in successive years)
biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)
recital (a detailed account or description of something)
Derivation:
historic (important in history)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The aggregate of past events
Example:
a critical time in the school's history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)
Meronyms (parts of "history"):
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
Dark Ages; Middle 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; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries)
Derivation:
historic (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
Example:
all of human history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("history" is a kind of...):
continuum (a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts)
Context examples:
But let me observe that all histories are against you—all stories, prose and verse.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A reference source that provides meanings of words related to medical history.
(Medical History Dictionary, NCI Thesaurus)
The date and time a medical history was collected.
(Medical History Data Collection Date Time, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon inquiry I was told, “that their names were to be found on no record, except a few of them, whom history has represented as the vilest of rogues and traitors.”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A classification of the medical history.
(Medical History Category, NCI Thesaurus)
The date on which the recording of the patient medical history was finished.
(Medical History Completion Date, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication or description that an event or occurrence in an individual's medical history is being managed.
(Medical History Controlled, NCI Thesaurus)
An incomplete description of the medical and treatment history of one or more patients.
(Anecdotal report, NCI Dictionary)
So much, Mr. Holmes, for my past history and my relations with Mr. Blessington.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The past is past, and the man who says history repeats itself is a liar.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
