historic

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UK /hɪˈstɒɹɪk/ US /hɪˈstɔɹɪk/

adj 4noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

famous, great, high, little, many, produced, proud

The historic settlement produced many artifacts that archaeologists studied for decades.

VERB + HISTORIC

experience, places, soared, square, suffer, visit, visited

We visited the historic square in the old town centre last summer.

HISTORIC + NOUN

buildings, capital, city, discovery, gourmet, haue, ireland, it's

The historic buildings in the old town attract thousands of tourists every year.

PREP.

in, in, on, out, than, with, with

The museum displayed artifacts in historic order from the earliest civilizations.

Definitions

adj

Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

A historic opportunity

July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.

Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.

Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.

Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)

An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.

Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.

The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.

noun

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

Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.

A historian.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — belonging to the past

historical

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

A historic opportunity

Wiktionary

July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.

Wiktionary

The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.

Wiktionary

Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.

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A record number of shares changed hands in busy trading as prices soared to a historic high.

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I was extremely disappointed to see our national soccer team suffer a historic loss.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, historic is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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