history

Noun

• 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
    

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

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

• 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
    

• the aggregate of past events
  • a critical time in the school's history
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  account , chronicle , story