- HISTORIC Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
If you would like to avoid being corrected, however, use historical for matters relating to history (the historical society), and historic to refer to things having great and lasting importance (a historic occasion)
- HISTORIC Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
HISTORIC definition: well-known or important in history See examples of historic used in a sentence
- HISTORICAL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Compare Grammar Historic or historical? Historic means ‘important or likely to be important in history’: …
- Historic - definition of historic by The Free Dictionary
Historic refers to that which is associated with significant events in history: the historic first voyage to the moon Thus, a historic house is likely to be of interest not just because it is relatively old, but because an important person lived in it or was otherwise associated with it
- historic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
In present usage, however, a distinction is often made between the two: historic is used as an adjective for the study of history, while historical is used as an adjective for the events of the past
- Historic Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
HISTORIC meaning: 1 : famous or important in history; 2 : having great and lasting importance
- historic, n. adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . .
There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word historic, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- History - Wikipedia
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline Similar debates surround the purpose of
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