noun
Meaning 1
A scholar who studies historiography.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
historiographer
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noun
Meaning 2
a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: historian
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student
Narrower terms: annalist, art historian, chronicler, Arendt, Hannah Arendt, Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede, Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, Durant, Will Durant, William James Durant, Eusebius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Franklin, John Hope Franklin, Gardiner, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Gibbon, Edward Gibbon, Herodotus, Josephus, Flavius Josephus, Joseph ben Matthias, Knox, John Knox, Livy, Titus Livius, Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, First Baron Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, Mahan, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Maitland, Frederic William Maitland, McMaster, John Bach McMaster, Mommsen, Theodor Mommsen, Niebuhr, Barthold George Niebuhr, Parkinson, C. Northcote Parkinson, Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Robinson, James Harvey Robinson, Saxo Grammaticus, Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., Stubbs, William Stubbs, Tacitus, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Thucydides, Toynbee, Arnold Toynbee, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Trevelyan, George Otto Trevelyan, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Tuchman, Barbara Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Turner, Frederick Jackson Turner, Vinogradoff, Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff, Walpole, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel, Woodward, C. Vann Woodward, Comer Vann Woodward, Xenophon
History
Etymology
From historiography + -er.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: historiògraf — scholar who studies historiography
- Catalan: historiògrafa — scholar who studies historiography
- French: historiographe — scholar who studies historiography
- Georgian: ისტორიოგრაფი (isṭoriograpi) — scholar who studies historiography
- Greek: ιστοριογράφος (istoriográfos) — scholar who studies historiography
- Irish: croiniceoir — scholar who studies historiography
- Italian: storiografo — scholar who studies historiography
- Latin: memoriālis — scholar who studies historiography
- Portuguese: historiógrafo — scholar who studies historiography
- Portuguese: historiógrafa — scholar who studies historiography
- Russian: историограф (istoriograf) — scholar who studies historiography
- Spanish: historiógrafo — scholar who studies historiography
- Spanish: historiógrafa — scholar who studies historiography