- the aggregate of past events;
"a critical time in the school's history"
- a record or narrative description of past events;
"a history of France" "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" "the story of exposure to lead"
- the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings;
"he teaches Medieval history" "history takes the long view"
- the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future;
"all of human history"
- 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"