Definition

1. Noun:
   • A concise written work that presents the main events, periods, or figures of a nation's or subject's history in a summarized and condensed form. It is an abridged or outline history, not a detailed or comprehensive study.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Giáo sư khuyên sinh viên đọc cuốn "Việt Nam sử lược" của Trần Trọng Kim trước. (The professor advised students to read Tran Trong Kim's "Vietnam: A Historical Summary" first.)
  • Đây chỉ là một bản sử lược, không đi sâu vào chi tiết. (This is only a historical summary, it does not go into detail.)
  • Ông ấy đang viết một bộ sử lược về các triều đại phong kiến. (He is writing a historical summary of the feudal dynasties.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in book titles to indicate the work's nature as a concise historical account.
• It can be used metaphorically to describe a brief, summarized account of any sequence of past events, not strictly national history.
  • Anh ấy tóm tắt dự án bằng một bản sử lược ngắn gọn. (He summarized the project with a brief historical outline.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lược sử (n): A synonym, also meaning a brief history or historical outline. The word order is reversed ("lược" meaning summary, "sử" meaning history).
  • Cuốn "Lược sử thời gian" rất nổi tiếng. (The book "A Brief History of Time" is very famous.)
• Sơ lược (adj): Sketchy, outline, summarized. This is an adjective describing something as being in a brief or preliminary form.
  • Đây là bản kế hoạch sơ lược. (This is an outline plan.)

Synonyms

• Historical outline
• Historical summary
• Historical abridgment
• Concise history

Related Terms

• Lịch sử (n): History. The full, detailed study of past events.
• Biên niên sử (n): Chronicle. A factual, typically chronological record of events.
• Thông sử (n): General history. A comprehensive historical work.

noun

1. historical summary