the aggregate of past events; a critical time in the school's history'

a record or narrative description of past events; a history of France; he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president; the story of exposure to lead

[ Syn: account , chronicle , story ]

the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; he teaches Medieval history; history takes the long view'

the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; all of human history'

all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; the dawn of recorded history; from the beginning of history'