n.
(pl. histories)
- the study of past events.
- the past considered as a whole.
▸the whole series of past events connected with someone or something.
▸an eventful past.
- a continuous, typically chronological, record of past events or trends.
Phrase
- be history
informal be defunct, finished, or dead. - the rest is history
the events succeeding those already related are so well known that they need not be recounted again.
Etymology
ME: via L. from Gk historia ‘narrative, history’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’.