definition of
history

[1] #1 history n. the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history". wn

[2] #2 history n. [account, chronicle, story] 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". wn

[3] #3 history n. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view". wn

[4] #4 history n. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history". wn

[5] #5 history n. 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". wn