history

Meanings

Noun

• The aggregate of past events.
• The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
• A set of events involving an entity.
• A record or narrative description of past events.
• A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
• A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
• Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
• Shared experience or interaction.

Verb

• To narrate or record.

Origin

• From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ ("learning through research"), from ἱστορέω, from ἵστωρ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ("see, know"). story, and storey.
• Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.