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Meaning
Adj
●
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
recorded
history
, (particularly)
as opposed to
legends
,
myths
, and fictions.
●
In Art & Literature:
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
recorded
history
, (particularly)
as opposed to
legends
,
myths
, and fictions.
About
history
;
depicting
persons
or
events
from
history
.
●
In Art, Literature & Time:
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
the past
generally.
Set in the past.
●
In Time:
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
the past
generally.
Former,
erstwhile
; (religious,
obsolete
)
lapsed
, nominal.
●
In Grammar & Time:
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
the past
generally.
One of various
tenses
or
moods
used to
tell
about
past
events
,
historic
(tense).
●
In Biology & Time:
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
the past
generally.
Synonym of
hereditary
or evolutionary.
●
In Time:
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
the
scholarly
discipline
of history.
Done in the
manner
of a
historian
:
written
as a development
over time
or
in accordance with
the
historical
method.
●
Of,
concerning
, or
in accordance with
the
scholarly
discipline
of history.
Synonym of
historic
: important or likely to be important to
history
and historians.
●
Forming
compound
adjectives
with the
meaning
"historical/~" or "historically":
Forming
compound
adjectives
with the
meaning
"historical/~" or "historically"
Noun
●
A
historical
romance.
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Origin
historical
English
-al
English
historic
English
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Etym
Synonyms
Historic
Historial
Bygone
Former
Old
Ancient
Past
Olden
Antonyms
Ahistorical
Anachronistic
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Contemporary
Present
Present-Day
Future
Projected
Expected
Related
Cultural
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Contemporary
Archaeological
Literary
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Factual
Anthropological
Theological
Economic
Political
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Linguistic
Heritage
Mythological
Geographical
Traditional
Religious
Archeological
Philosophical
Ideological
Social
Medieval
Empirical
Personal
Architectural
Theoretical
Geographic
Racial
Contextual
Institutional
Narrative
Antiquity
Histories
Tradition
Original
Traditions
Educational
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Subjective
Biographical
Real
Symbolic
Historians
Spiritual
Origins
Classical
Structural
Geography
Thematic
Geological
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Ancient History
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