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history

n. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"

history

n. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"

history

n. the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"

history

n. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

history

n. a software feature keeping track of the user input during a session

account, story, chronicle

n. a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

education

n. knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education"

experience

n. the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"

chronology

n. a record of events in the order of their occurrence

epic, epic poem

n. a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

saga

n. a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account

comment, commentary

n. a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"

footnote, footer

n. a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

gloss, rubric

n. an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text

observation, reflection, reflexion

n. a remark expressing careful consideration

account, explanation

n. a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.; "the explanation was very simple"; "I expected a brief account"

daily, gazette

n. (newspaper)

periodical

n. a publication that appears at fixed intervals

rag, sheet, tabloid

n. newspaper with half-size pages

introduction, insertion, intromission

n. the act of putting one thing into another

yarn, story, tale, narration, narrative

n. the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"

novel

n. a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

proceedings, minutes, transactions

n. a written account of what transpired at a meeting

interpretation

n. an explanation that results from interpreting something; "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence"

judgment, judgement, opinion

n. the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"

record

n. a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"

copy, transcript

n. a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

journal, diary

n. a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

journal, daybook

n. a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

register

n. a book in which names and transactions are listed

register, registry

n. an official written record of names or events or transactions

study, report

n. a written document describing the findings of some individual or group; "this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale"

tomorrow

n. the near future; "tomorrow's world"; "everyone hopes for a better tomorrow"

fabrication, fiction, fable

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

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