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Word: History
Speech Type: Noun
Old English istoria, from Latin, from Greek historia ‘inquiry, narrative, account’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root shared by wit; subsequently reinforced by French historie, histoire
ˈhɪst(ə)ri
the study of past events, particularly in human affairs
Short Definition:study of past events
Examples:- medieval European history
the whole series of past events connected with a particular person or thing
Short Definition:past events connected with particular person or thing
Examples:- the history of the Empire
- a patient with a complicated medical history
a continuous, typically chronological, record of important or public events or of a particular trend or institution
Short Definition:continuous record of something
Examples:- a history of the labour movement
a record kept by a web browser of the web pages and other files it has been used to access
Short Definition:record kept by web browser of pages accessed
Examples:- when you see advertisements on the site, they are in relation to what you're searching for, not your history
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