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memoir
A report, especially on a scientific or scholarly topic.
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  1. A report, especially on a scientific or scholarly topic.
  2. A report or record of a scholarly investigation, scientific study, etc.
  3. An account of the personal experiences of an author.
account
A basis or ground:
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  1. A basis or ground:
  2. A report relating to one's conduct:
  3. Worth, standing, or importance:
tale
A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.
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  1. A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.
  2. Alternative form of tael.
  3. A story or account of true, legendary, or fictitious events; narrative
annals
A written account of events year by year in chronological order
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  1. A written account of events year by year in chronological order
  2. Historical records or chronicles; history
  3. A periodical journal in which the records and reports of a learned field are compiled.
records
Plural form of record
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  1. Plural form of record
chronicle
A detailed narrative record or report.
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  1. A detailed narrative record or report.
  2. A narrative; history
  3. A historical record or register of facts or events arranged in the order in which they happened
antiquity
The quality of being old or ancient; considerable age:
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  1. The quality of being old or ancient; considerable age:
  2. Ancient manners, customs, etc.
  3. The people, especially the writers and artisans, of ancient times:
ancient-history
The history of times long past.
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  1. The history of times long past.
  2. History from the earliest recorded events to the end of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476
  3. (Informal) Common knowledge, especially of a recent event that has lost its original impact or importance.
account
Worth, standing, or importance:
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  1. Worth, standing, or importance:
  2. A report relating to one's conduct:
  3. A report; description; story
chronicle
A narrative; history
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  1. A narrative; history
  2. An extended account in prose or verse of historical events, sometimes including legendary material, presented in chronological order and without authorial interpretation or comment.
  3. A detailed narrative record or report.
description
The act, process, art, or technique of describing or picturing in words
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  1. The act, process, art, or technique of describing or picturing in words
  2. A statement or passage that describes
  3. A statement or an account describing something:
narration
Writing or speaking that narrates, as history, biography, or fiction
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  1. Writing or speaking that narrates, as history, biography, or fiction
  2. The act or process of narrating; the telling of a story or of happenings
  3. A story or account; narrative
narrative
An explanation or interpretation of events in accordance with a particular theory, ideology, or point of view:
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  1. An explanation or interpretation of events in accordance with a particular theory, ideology, or point of view:
  2. Any official or standard account or explanation, as of a sequence of related events
  3. A narrated account; a story.
report
A statement or account brought in and presented, often for publication
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  1. A statement or account brought in and presented, often for publication
  2. (Law) A formal account or record of a court case, decision, etc.
  3. A formal account of the proceedings or transactions of a group:
statement
An abstract of a commercial or financial account showing an amount due; a bill.
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  1. An abstract of a commercial or financial account showing an amount due; a bill.
  2. A formal oral or written declaration, especially with regard to facts or claims:
  3. The thing stated; account, declaration, assertion, etc.
story
A news event or a report of it
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  1. A news event or a report of it
  2. The telling of a happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious; account; narration
  3. An account or report regarding the facts of an event or group of events:
version
A particular form or variation of something, esp. as modified in a different art form
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  1. A particular form or variation of something, esp. as modified in a different art form
  2. A description or account from one point of view, especially as opposed to another:
  3. A particular form or variation of an earlier or original type:
annals
Any journal reporting discoveries in some field, meetings of a society, etc.
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  1. Any journal reporting discoveries in some field, meetings of a society, etc.
  2. A periodical journal in which the records and reports of a learned field are compiled.
  3. A descriptive account or record; a history:
chronicle
A detailed narrative record or report.
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  1. A detailed narrative record or report.
  2. A historical record or register of facts or events arranged in the order in which they happened
  3. A narrative; history
background
A person's experience, training, and education:
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  1. A person's experience, training, and education:
  2. Music (in full background music) or sound effects used as a subordinated accompaniment to dialogue or action, as in movies
  3. The cultural or social environment in which a person was brought up or has lived:
past
Previous background, career, experiences, and activities:
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  1. Previous background, career, experiences, and activities:
  2. A verb form in the past tense.
  3. (Grammar) The past tense.
Find another word for history. In this page you can discover 40 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for history, like: memoir, account, tale, annals, records, archives, recorded history, chronicle, historical knowledge, historical writings and historical evidence.

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  • Is there some history I should know about?

  • I can think of a thousand scenes and places in history I'd visit!

  • It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

  • History is the life of nations and of humanity.

  • And if history is an accurate guide, that wealth will be partially redistributed to the poor—even the poorest of the poor, the bottom billion.

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