Other forms: histories
History is the subject about everything that happened before today. Study history.
It is written from what survived, which is never a fair sample of what happened. History changes as the questions change, which is why it has to be rewritten.
1nounhistoryThe subject about everything that happened before today.
“History was the only lesson he stayed awake in.”
history is a subject.
From Greek hístōr, the one who knows, and historéō, to inquire and write down. History began as the work of finding out, not the record that came of it.
Proto-Indo-European
*weyd-
Middle English
historie
English, today
history
Built from
From Middle English historie. From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (“learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (“to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (“the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European weyd- (“see, know”). a doublet of story and storey. Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.
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