History - Definition

n 1: the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the
school's history"
2: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history
of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to
kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn:
history, account, chronicle, story]
3: the discipline that records and interprets past events
involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history";
"history takes the long view"
4: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from
the past to the present and even into the future; "all of
human history"
5: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a
body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the
beginning of history"