history

Meaning

1. The aggregate of past events.
2. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
3. The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory).
4. A set of events involving an entity.
5. A record or narrative description of past events.
6. A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
7. A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
8. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
9. Shared experience or interaction.

story

chronicle

historical record

memorable events

historical chronicles

pleasure

pretext

historical aspects

case

historical development

all about

document case

affair

historical records

past event

his-story

Frequency

Hyphenated as

his‧to‧ry

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/

From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey. Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.