Definition of history
- n. - A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts
and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information;
a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a
patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.
- n. - A systematic, written account of events, particularly of
those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually
connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true
story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from
annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in
strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an
individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from
personal experience, observation, and memory.
- v. t. - To narrate or record.