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history
history is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.
- 2noun
A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.
- 3transitive verb
To narrate or record.
- 4noun
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
"he teaches Medieval history"
"history takes the long view"
- 5noun
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"
- 6noun
a record or narrative description of past events
"a history of France"
"he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"
- 7noun
the aggregate of past events
"a critical time in the school's history"
- 8noun
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
"all of human history"
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