historic

Meanings

Adjective

• Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
• Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
• Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
• Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.

Noun

• A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
• A historian.

Related

Similar words

• dated, old-fangled, outdated

Opposite words

• unhistoric

Origin

• From Latin historicus ("historical"), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός ("exact; historical"). Cognate with French historique.