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Meaning of history

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  history
      n 1: the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the
           school's history"
      2: 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:
         {history}, {account}, {chronicle}, {story}]
      3: the discipline that records and interprets past events
         involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history";
         "history takes the long view"
      4: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from
         the past to the present and even into the future; "all of
         human history"
      5: 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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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