Noun

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The aggregate of past events.

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The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

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A set of events involving an entity.

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A record or narrative description of past events.

A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Shared experience or interaction.

There is too much history between them for them to split up now.

He has had a lot of history with the police.

Noun

(en noun)

An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.

the Aztec civilization

Western civilization

Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.

(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.

A hermit doesn't much care for civilization .

I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.

The act or process of civilizing]] or becoming [[civilize, civilized.

The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.

The state or quality of being civilized.

He was a man of great civilization .

(obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.