■ noun ( plural histories )
1》 the study of past events.
2》 the past considered as a whole.
↘the whole series of past events connected with someone or something.
↘an eventful past.
3》 a continuous, typically chronological, record of past events or trends.
Phrases
be ~ informal be defunct, finished, or dead.
the rest is ~ the events succeeding those already related are so well known that they need not be recounted again.
Origin
ME: via L. from Gk historia 'narrative, ~', from histōr 'learned, wise man'.