history
English Thesaurus
1. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition)
| domain member category | : | boston tea party, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | historian, historiographer, |
| definition | : | a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | saracen, |
| definition | : | (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades (noun.person) |
| domain member category | : | saracen, |
| definition | : | (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire (noun.person) |
2. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | cognition, knowledge, noesis, |
| definition | : | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning (noun.tops) |
3. a record or narrative description of past events (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | record, |
| definition | : | anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | ancient history, |
| definition | : | a history of the ancient world (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | etymology, |
| definition | : | a history of a word (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | case history, |
| definition | : | detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | recital, |
| definition | : | a detailed account or description of something (noun.communication) |
| domain category | : | history, |
| definition | : | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition) |
4. the aggregate of past events (noun.time)
| part holonym | : | antiquity, |
| definition | : | the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe (noun.time) |
| part holonym | : | age, historic period, |
| definition | : | an era of history having some distinctive feature (noun.time) |
| part holonym | : | dark ages, middle ages, |
| definition | : | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (noun.time) |
| part holonym | : | renaissance, renascence, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.time) |
5. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future (noun.time)
| hypernym | : | continuum, |
| definition | : | a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts (noun.time) |
6. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | historic, |
| definition | : | important in history (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | historical, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the study of history (adj.pert) |
7. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | historic, historical, |
| definition | : | belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past (adj.all) |
8. a record or narrative description of past events (noun.communication)
| derivation | : | chronicle, |
| definition | : | record in chronological order; make a historical record (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | historic, |
| definition | : | important in history (adj.all) |
9. the aggregate of past events (noun.time)
| derivation | : | historic, historical, |
| definition | : | belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past (adj.all) |
10. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | historic, |
| definition | : | important in history (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | historical, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the study of history (adj.pert) |
11. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge (noun.cognition)
| derivation | : | historic, historical, |
| definition | : | belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past (adj.all) |
12. a record or narrative description of past events (noun.communication)
| derivation | : | chronicle, |
| definition | : | record in chronological order; make a historical record (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | historic, |
| definition | : | important in history (adj.all) |
13. the aggregate of past events (noun.time)
| derivation | : | historic, historical, |
| definition | : | belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past (adj.all) |
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