histor-, histori- +

1. Unconcerned with or unrelated to history, historical development, or tradition.
2. Not historical; not concerned with or not taking into account history or historical development; especially, when examining a phenomenon that changes over time.

1. The study of non-Western cultures using evidence from documentary sources and oral traditions.
2. The study of written and oral histories in the analysis of how a specific culture has changed over time.
3. In areas where prehistoric and nonliterate cultures have survived into historical times, it is possible to reconstruct history before contact with literate populations through the study of myths and oral traditions, collected ethnographically.
4. In Central America, the aboriginal written records are used in conjunction with the early European records, archaeological investigations, and oral tradition to reconstruct prehistoric life.

1. The future course of events; especially, as it is presently envisaged, as it was formerly predicted, or as it may be viewed by ensuing generations.
2. The present as it may be regarded by posterity; future perspective on the present or past.
3. A fictional narrative of imagined future events; in science fiction, a fictional, self-contained, consistent, chronological framework (especially, realized across a body of work).

1. Someone who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it.
2. A writer, student, or scholar of history.
3. Someone who writes or compiles a chronological record of events; a chronicler.

A petty or contemptible historian.

1. Having importance in or influence on history.
2. Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past.
3. Important in or affecting the course of history.

Historic and historical have different applications, although their senses overlap.

Historic refers to what is important in history: "the historic first voyage to the moon". It is also refers to what is famous or interesting because of its association with certain people or special events in history: "a historic house".

Historical refers to whatever existed in the past, whether regarded as important or not: "a minor historical character". Historical also refers to anything concerned with history or the study of the past: "a historical novel; historical discoveries".

While these distinctions are useful, these words are often used interchangeably, as in historic times or historical times.

1. Having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief.
2. Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past.
3. Based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: "A historical reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg as seen in a local newspaper at that time."
4. Narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past.
5. Noting or pertaining to analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of a phenomenon; such as, with language or economics.

1. Significance owing to its history.
2. The state of having in fact existed in the past.

A writer of history; a historian.

1. The belief that natural laws beyond human control determine historical events.
2. The theory that each period of history has its own unique beliefs and values and can only be understood in its historical context.
3. A theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by any human agency.
4. A theory that all cultural phenomena are historically determined and that historians must study each period without imposing any personal or absolute value system.
5. A search for laws of historical evolution that would explain and predict historical phenomena.

1. Historical authenticity; fact.
2. The state or fact of being historically authentic.
3. Of or relating to the character of history.
4. Based on or concerned with events in history.
5. Used in the past: "historical costumes; historical weapons".
6. Important or famous in history.

Abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied.

1. The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings.
2. All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge.
3. A record or narrative description of past events.
4. Chronological records of events, as of the lives or developments of people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events.

1. A specialist in historiography.
2. A historian, especially one designated by a group or public institution.

1. The body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
2. The body of techniques, theories, and principles of historical research and presentation; methods of historical scholarship.
3. The narrative presentation of history based on a critical examination, evaluation, and selection of material from primary and secondary sources and subject to scholarly criteria.
4. An official history; such as, "medieval historiographies".
5. The existing findings and interpretations relating to a particular historical topic.