history

Definitions


[ˈhɪst(ə)ri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the study of past events, particularly in human affairs
(e.g: medieval European history)

- the whole series of past events connected with a particular person or thing
(e.g: the history of the Empire)

- a continuous, typically chronological, record of important or public events or of a particular trend or institution
(e.g: a history of the labour movement)

- a record kept by a web browser of the web pages and other files it has been used to access
(e.g: when you see advertisements on the site, they are in relation to what you're searching for, not your history)


Phrases:
- be history
- go down in history
- make history
- the rest is history

Origin:
Old English istoria, from Latin, from Greek historia ‘inquiry, narrative, account’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root shared by wit; subsequently reinforced by French historie, histoire




definition by Oxford Dictionaries