noun
The aggregate of past events.
History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.
He dreams of an invention that will make history.
The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
He teaches Latin American history at the university and publishes books about the Cold War.
History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.
The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory).
in all of human history and prehistory
in all recorded history
A set of events involving an entity.
a long and sordid history
What is your medical history?
A record or narrative description of past events.
I really enjoyed Shakespeare's tragedies more than his histories.
a short history of post-Columbian colonization
verb
To narrate or record.
And therefore will hee wipe his Tables cleane, And keepe no Tell-tale to his Memorie, That may repeat, and Historie his losse