Noun

(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)

The aggregate of past events.

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, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= 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?}}

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

(pseudohistories)

Any work that claims to be history, but does not use established historiographical methods; especially one that uses disputed evidence and speculation rather than relying on the analysis of primary sources

The contemptible trick practised by Mr. Anderson, in the first chapter of his pseudo-history, must not pass without due correction. ''(''The Critical review: or, Annals of literature , Volume 1, ed. Tobias George Smollett, 1815, p. 152)