history

noun

1. 1

   the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

   he teaches Medieval history

   history takes the long view

2. 2

   all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge

   the dawn of recorded history

   from the beginning of history

3. 3

   a record or narrative description of past events

   a history of France

   he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president

4. 4

   the aggregate of past events

   a critical time in the school's history

5. 5

   the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

   all of human history