Found 4 items, similar to history.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: history sejarah
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: history babad, riwayat, sejarah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: history history n 1: the aggregate of past events; “a critical time in the school's history” 2: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; “all of human history” 3: 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] 4: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; “he teaches Medieval history”; “history takes the long view” 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”
English → English (gcide) Definition: History History \His"to*ry\, n.; pl. Histories. [L. historia, Gr. 'istori`a history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, from the root of ? to know; akin to E. wit. See Wit, and cf. Story.] [1913 Webster] 1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill. [1913 Webster] 2. A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory. [1913 Webster] Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster] For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history. --Shak. [1913 Webster] What histories of toil could I declare! --Pope. [1913 Webster] History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses. Syn: Chronicle; annals; relation; narration. Usage: History, Chronicle, Annals. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history. [1913 Webster] Justly C[ae]sar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for praise. --Pope. [1913 Webster] No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion. --Rogers. [1913 Webster] History \His"to*ry\, v. t. To narrate or record. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]