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Historical vs Storied - What's the difference?

historical | storied |

As adjectives the difference between historical and storied

is that historical is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past while storied is much talked or written about.

As a noun historical

is a historical romance.

historical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

    • Usage notes

    * * See the usage notes about (m) for more.

    Synonyms

    * historic

    Derived terms

    * ahistorical * art-historical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A historical romance.
  • * 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
    • However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.

    storied

    English

    Alternative forms

    * storeyed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • much talked or written about
  • historical
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
  • (US) having multiple storeys; multi-storied

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