History vs Festival - What's the difference?
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The aggregate of past events.
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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.
(obsolete) To narrate or record.
Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
As nouns the difference between history and festival
is that history is the aggregate of past events while festival is .As a verb history
is (obsolete) to narrate or record.history
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Alternative forms
* historie (obsolete) * hystory (nonstandard) * hystorie (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria, passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}
- There is too much history between them for them to split up now.
- He has had a lot of history with the police.
Synonyms
* (aggregate of past events) background, past * (record or narrative description of past events) account, chronicle, story, tale * medical history * logDerived terms
* alternate history * antihistory * antihistoricist, antihistoricism * art history * call history * case history * credit history * family history * herstory * historian * historic * historical * historically * historiography * history repeats itself * life history * local history * medical history * microhistory * natural history * oral history * postal history * prehistory * prehistorian * prehistoric * prosecution history * pseudohistoryVerb
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(wikipedia festival)Adjective
(en adjective)- the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].
