HISTORIES - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Noun

the aggregate of past events

Example: a critical time in the school's history

Part of speech: Noun

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

Example: all of human history

Part of speech: Noun

the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

Example: he teaches Medieval history; history takes the long view

Part of speech: Noun

all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing

Example: a body of knowledge; the dawn of recorded history; from the beginning of history

Part of speech: Noun

a record or narrative description of past events

Example: a history of France; he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president; the story of exposure to lead