1. (

• history

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

2. (

• history ,
• account ,
• chronicle ,
• story ,

) 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" ;

3. (

• history

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

4. (

• history ,

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

5. (

• history ,

) 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" ;