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Word entry · 9 letters

historian

Best crossword clue

"Past scholar"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /hɪˈstɔːɹɪən/Part of speech nounSorted ahiinorstStarts with HEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

Word origin

From Middle English historian, historien, from Old French historien, from Latin historia (“story, history”), equivalent to histor(y) + -ian. More at history.

Used in a sentence

  • If this is what real people and societies are like, then it may be appropriate for historians to represent their subjects' lives in storylike form.
  • history does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.
  • The patient is unconscious when the syncopal event takes place and therefore is a poor historian.

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