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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
About history; depicting persons or events from history.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: art, arts, literature, media, publishing
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
Set in the past.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: art, arts, literature, media, publishing
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: hereditary or evolutionary
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
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adj
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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Synonyms: historic
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adj
Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically"
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noun
A historical romance.
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adjective
used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: diachronic
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adjective
of or relating to the study of history
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: ahistorical
adjective satellite
belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: historic
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adjective satellite
having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary
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History
From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.
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