historyhis‧to‧ry /ˈhɪstəri/ ●●● S2 W1 noun (plural histories) 
Throughout history the achievements of women have been largely ignored.history of the post-war history of Europe No man in recent history has done more to rebuild the Democratic Party. the early history of Scotland Other meteor storms have occurred in recorded history. a museum devoted to local history one of the darkest episodes in American history an interesting period in Egyptian history a decision that changed the course of history a college steeped in history History shows that the usual response to violent protest is repression.2development of something [singular, uncountable] the events that took place from the beginning and during the development of a particular place, activity, institution etchistory of the worst disaster in the history of space travellong/brief/75-year etc history The 1970s were the most successful in the theater’s long history.3subject [uncountable] the study of past events as a subject in school or universityEuropean/art/economic etc history a degree in European historyancient/modern history a history lesson4account [countable] an account of past eventshistory of a history of World War II a potted history (=very short) of Gielgud’s life (BrE)5past life [countable, uncountable] a record of something that has affected someone or been done by them in the pastmedical/employment/career etc history Your doctor will ask for your medical history.history of Is there any history of heart disease in your family? The defendant had a history of violent assaults on women.6make history to do something important that will be recorded and remembered: Lindbergh made history when he flew across the Atlantic.7something will go down in history used to say that something is important enough to be remembered and recorded: This day will go down in history as the start of a new era in South Africa.8history repeats itself used to say that things often happen in the same way as they did before9the history books the record of past events: Mozart’s genius earned him a place in the history books.10... and the rest is history informal used to say that everyone knows the rest of a story you have been telling11that’s (past/ancient) history spoken informal used to say that something is not important anymore → natural history, case historyCOLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2adjectivesrecent/modern/contemporary history· The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.early/ancient history· He had studied ancient Roman history.recorded history (=history since people have written things down)· These were the worst floods in recorded history.local history (=the history of events in a particular local area)· The building is now a museum of local history.American/Chinese/British etc history· It was one of the worst peacetime disasters in American history.human history (=the history of people rather than the world itself)· World War I was the most destructive war in human history up to that time.political/social etc history· the political history of Germanyoral history (=history that is told by speaking and that often consists of personal memories)· Smith recorded the conversation for oral history.rich history (=an interesting and important history)· Greece has a very rich history.long history· The 1970s were the most successful in the theatre's long history.verbshistory shows/tells (that)· History shows that the usual response to violent protests is repression.go down in history (=be remembered for many years)· She will go down in history as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.make history (=do something important that will be recorded and remembered)· Ordinary Berliners made history when they tore down the wall.rewrite history (=change what we believe are the facts about the past)· They're trying to rewrite history to exaggerate their role in the war.trace the history of something (=find out what the history of something is)· James traces the history of modern cricket back to its beginnings in the late 1700s.shape history (=influence events that are recorded)· He is one of the politicians who shaped 20th century history.phrasesa period of/in history· a glorious period in English historythe first time in history (=the first time something has ever happened)· For the first time in history, an American president resigned his office.change the course of history (=do something that has many important effects)· Roosevelt and Churchill helped to change the course of history.be steeped in history (=be closely connected with important events in history)· Cambridge is steeped in history and tradition.consign something to the dustbin of history (=to forget about something that existed in the past – used especially when saying that you will feel glad when people have got rid of something)· One day nuclear weapons will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
WORD ORIGINhistory
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin historia, from Greek, from histor ‘knowing, learned’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a history of World War II
- a book about the history of the United Nations
- I got an 84 on my history test.
- India has been invaded several times in its history.
- the history of jazz music
- For decompression sickness, your dive history is available in graphic detail for hyperbaric specialists to consult.
- In this most settled and prosperous nation in history the political situation is almost permanently unstable.
- Our history is too full of pain and outrage to want any of it back.
- The history of life, he argued, could have followed all sorts of paths.
- The Moon experienced only a brief period of intense internal activity early in its history.
- What the lie was, I had too little knowledge of history or science to know then.
Longman Language Activatorto change facts or information in a dishonest way
to dishonestly change the meaning of a piece of information or of something that someone has said, in order to get some advantage for yourself or to support your own opinion: · The lawyers twisted everything I said to make it look as if I was guilty.· Every time I try to talk to him about it, he just twists everything I say.· Write very clearly so that no one can twist your meaning.
to give people a wrong idea about someone or their opinions, by what you write or say: · Your reporter has completely misrepresented my opinions about immigration.· Many women feel that the history books either ignore or misrepresent them.
to explain facts, statements etc in a way that makes them seem different from what they really are: · Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.· These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.distort the truth/the facts: · Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts.
to dishonestly change official documents or records so that they contain false information: · She falsified her birth certificate to get the job.· A whole team was kept busy falsifying official government records.· Their accounts had been falsified over a long period of time
to pretend that you think someone has said something that is not what they actually said or meant: · I didn't mean that at all -- you're just putting words into my mouth!· You're putting words into her mouth. You don't know what she thinks.
informal to dishonestly change a company's financial records, in order to steal money: · We've just found out Alec's been cooking the books.· The directors of the company made millions from cooking the books before the fraud investigators caught them.
if a government, film company etc rewrites history, it deceives people by pretending that particular historical events did not really happen or that they happened differently: · Hollywood has been accused of rewriting history, by once again denying the role played by African Americans.
unable to escape · Have you ever bought any of their products?· When he left, Bartlett didn't know if he'd ever see Alaska again.· I don't think I'll ever get used to that feeling of excitement before a show.ever ... (before) · Have you ever been on a ship like this before?best/biggest/worst ever etc · That was the biggest mistake I ever made.more/better/worse etc than ever (before) · Within a few years of the two World Wars, the standard of living of Western European countries was higher than ever before.
used especially in formal questions and statements: · "Of course, no one should have to suffer at any time," said the general gruffly, "but things are different in times of war."· Have you at any time met with the defendant?at any time in history/in our existence etc: · There are more single parents today than at any time in history.
at any time in the past, since humans have kept records of events: · Robinson has won more matches than any coach in history.· His arrest ended the longest manhunt in history.· Spielberg then went on to direct 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', which became one of the highest earning films in history.· It was the first attempt in history to assemble representatives of all the major regions.
at any time during your life: · I've never owned a gun in my life.· Susan felt she had never worked so hard in her life as she did that day.· He knew that this was one of the saddest things he'd ever have to do in his life.· For the first time in his life, Yossarian prayed.
at any time in history or in someone's life: · Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is one of the best-selling rock albums of all time.· My favourite joke of all time is the one about the donkey who goes to the doctor and says ...· a list of the 100 Most Influential Women of All Time
all the things that have happened in the past all the things that have happened to someone in the past: · Greg didn't like to talk about his past, · The newspapers had been investigating the President's past, hoping to find some scandal.· The elegant buildings on the sea front give us a glimpse of Brighton's more glorious past.
all the things that have happened in the past, especially to a country, a town, or an organization: the history of something/something's history: · India has been invaded several times in its history.· a book about the history of the United Nations
all the things that a person, organization, country etc has done in the past, especially when talking about how good or bad they are: a good/bad/poor etc record: · As an employee, his record is outstanding.· The US had serious concerns over the country's poor human rights record.record of: · The department has a long record of high achievement.record on: · The industry's record on conservation is not very impressive.track record (=a record that shows how experienced or skilful a person or organization is): · HMA has a great track record of managing hospitals.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meanings 1 & 2adjectives Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career. The carnival will go down in history (=be remembered for many years) as one of the best ever. a long history of success one of the most important events in the history of mankind a patient’s medical history (=the illnesses they have had) Who’s your chemistry professor? Redgrave won his third Olympic gold medal, and secured his place in history. He taught geography at the local secondary school.
· The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.
· He had studied ancient Roman history.
(=history since people have written things down)· These were the worst floods in recorded history.
(=the history of events in a particular local area)· The building is now a museum of local history.
· It was one of the worst peacetime disasters in American history.
(=the history of people rather than the world itself)· World War I was the most destructive war in human history up to that time.
· the political history of Germany
(=history that is told by speaking and that often consists of personal memories)· Smith recorded the conversation for oral history.
(=an interesting and important history)· Greece has a very rich history.
· The 1970s were the most successful in the theatre's long history.
verbs· History shows that the usual response to violent protests is repression.
(=be remembered for many years)· She will go down in history as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
(=do something important that will be recorded and remembered)· Ordinary Berliners made history when they tore down the wall.
(=change what we believe are the facts about the past)· They're trying to rewrite history to exaggerate their role in the war.
(=find out what the history of something is)· James traces the history of modern cricket back to its beginnings in the late 1700s.
(=influence events that are recorded)· He is one of the politicians who shaped 20th century history.
phrases· a glorious period in English history
(=the first time something has ever happened)· For the first time in history, an American president resigned his office.
(=do something that has many important effects)· Roosevelt and Churchill helped to change the course of history.
(=be closely connected with important events in history)· Cambridge is steeped in history and tradition.
(=to forget about something that existed in the past – used especially when saying that you will feel glad when people have got rid of something)· One day nuclear weapons will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· I have a history class at nine o'clock today.
Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career.· Changing conditions shape the course of evolution.
· The English curriculum is divided into Language and Literature.
· I decided to do a Maths degree.
· He got a good grade for his English essay.
(=a situation in which someone has failed many times in the past)· Some children have a history of failure at school.
· Is there a family history of heart disease?
The carnival will go down in history (=be remembered for many years) as one of the best ever.· The science homework was really hard.
· I've got a history lesson this afternoon.
a long history of success one of the most important events in the history of mankind a patient’s medical history (=the illnesses they have had) British English (=recent history, as a subject of study)· a degree in modern history
Who’s your chemistry professor? Redgrave won his third Olympic gold medal, and secured his place in history. (=study a subject at a school or university) Anna is studying French literature.
Anna is studying French literature. He taught geography at the local secondary school.· On Monday we had a French test.
(=someone who writes articles and books about a subject)· This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history, a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.· I could see my father strumming the guitar, plucking our ancient, mournful history from the hollowness of its wooden frame.· For one thing, this is not ancient history.· But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.· It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.· The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history.· That, too, seemed like ancient history now.· He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history.
· Their brief histories are shown in Appendix 7.· But for the first time in its brief, shining history, Apple had reason to worry.· The first section of his book gives a brief life history supported by a collection of his superb pencil sketches.· A brief history of Reinberto Lopez AlaIa suggests that it is not a question with a simple answer.· Indeed, the relatively brief history of information technology has already demonstrated the dangers of even short-term forecasting.· A brief history prepared by the Education Coalition, a lobbying group, says California began statewide testing in 1962.· Unlike the previous two, this film attempts to convey the nature of the fighting within a brief history of the war.
· Search them out if you wish to increase your understanding of early New Zealand history.· This feature was particularly emphasized in the early history of the Roman rite.· It is almost certain that, during the Earth's early history, the planet was a frequent victim of cometary impacts.· In a sense the Earth was reborn without leaving a trace of its early history.· Sold to the museum by the New York conservator Mario Modestini, its early history is completely unknown.· The earliest history of the use of pearls is difficult to establish.· All the paintings were purchased through Christie's at some point in their early history.· The luminosity of the Sun in the early history of the Solar System was probably only about 70% of the present value.
· He was reading a book on political and economic history.· So this is how economic history restarts.· There are, of course, many links and parallels between economic history and the development of the government and social institutions.· Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.· Ageing and the elderly; Economic history.· Social and economic history and demography have a key role in guiding policy-making beyond crisis responses towards fundamental medium- and long-run issues.
· This world is his world. Human history is the outworking of his plan.· Rarely in the annals of human history has any people committed so much of its treasure to such a noble cause.· The old religions under which people lived for ninety-nine point nine percent of human history have decayed or are irrelevant.· We also know that recorded human history extends back only some six thousand years.· In 1937, she had felt she had had enough of the pernicious course of human history.· Periods of punctuated equilibrium are equally visible in human history.· There has been nothing like it in human history.· During most of human history, this fundamental information came most of all from agriculture.
· Sources for local history Document sources are indispensible for most local history studies.· Only a year, more frequently one portion of a year, is given to local history, geography, or law.· This is not criticism as it is necessary when writing local history to use previous writers.· So will the lives of other fascinating but lesser-known individuals who together form the fabric of local gay history.· Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary.· Some areas may provide a rich vein of local history which is also well related to a supplementary unit.· Their specific and local histories, often threatened and repressed, are inserted ` between the lines' of dominant cultural practices.
· Incubation has of course a long and reputable history in antiquity.· The Penguins are in the midst of an eight-game road trip-the longest in franchise history.· The use of official statistics, for example, has a long history in many of the social sciences.· Visiting the megaliths, especially the circles, grounds us in the long and mysterious history of humanity.· Start2 builds on a long history of arms accords and summits between Moscow and Washington.· This concern about the calibre of councillors has a long history.· However, the interest of neurophysiologists has a considerably longer history.· There is, after all, a long history of wife-beating and of genocide, but that does not make them excusable.
· They are expected to take a full medical history and perform a physical examination.· Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity.· The past medical history was otherwise unremarkable.· Flett, an Orcadian, had taken medical and natural history degrees at Edinburgh, having studied geology under J. Geikie.· Here a check is kept on weight; blood and urine tests are carried out; and relevant medical history is noted.· His new employer can get his medical history from the insurance company, and his credit history from a credit bureau.· Perhaps most importantly, the computer interface greatly facilitates both obtaining and recording a complete medical history.· Comorbidity was categorised as mild, moderate, or severe by a physician based on the patient's medical history.
· He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911.· And in 1951 Great Britain, for the first time in modern history, made leprosy a reportable disease.· He is an extraordinary figure in modern world history, and in William Duiker he has a worthy biographer.· This may have been the first time in modern history that a painting incited people to such public agitation.· Early modern history: Political, economic and social history and the history of science.· The rest is miserable modern history.· They left Oxford in 1921, with seconds in modern history, and shared a flat in London while establishing parallel careers.
· The historical theme extends to cover local canals, bridges, floods, natural history and archaeology.· Myth is nothing but natural history, plus human history, in time-disguised and faith-distorted form.· What is striking about natural history illustrations is sometimes their longevity.· But more important than these human aspects is the virtually untarnished natural history of the refuge.· Curiously enough, she had never seen a newt before. Natural history was not her strong point.· We walked toward the natural history museum.-What happened between you and Jessica, Brice? he asked.· Her passion for natural history became increasingly fashionable in polite society during the 17605.· For the rest of the time, we talked only of natural history and local gossip, and got on very well.
· It is an approach that has informed political actions and hence the political history of the country.· Nixon has been subjected to as much psychoanalytic study as any political figure in history.· Whatever the cause, the solution was to have major consequences in terms of the later political history of the Merovingians.· Bit by little bit, our talking, our weeping, and our anger added up to an emotional and political history.· More social history is being taught but examination syllabuses still focus on political and economic history which conventionally excludes women.· I figure this will either be the shortest political career in history or the job for the rest of my life.· Again, this is where sculpture is closely aligned to social and political history.· Morris presents it all as a revelation, a historic breakthrough in political history.
· Cultural predisposition Recognition that cultural pressures on women to diet contribute to anorexia nervosa has had a fairly recent history.· At this point, Camp David looks like one of the great diplomatic miscalculations of recent history.· For the 1970s and 1980s generations of graduate embroiderers, a recent history and a widened definition of embroidery/stitch now exists.· This is where the recent history of law's withdrawal from the regulation of private morality provides a useful perspective.· Little by little I learned Leslie's recent military history.· Such ambiguities, of course, are not peculiar to recent history.· It seems reasonable to suppose that even before 1790 he would have learned to appreciate their attitudes towards recent history.· Knowledge of recent political history may enable you to correct these generalisations to some extent.
· The collection is based on social history.· The former, sublimely illustrated, describes the social history and psychological underpinnings of our underpinnings.· Why was evacuation such an important episode in the social history of the Second World War?· On the economic and social history of the period its influence was also enormous.· It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history.· Business and labour history; Social history Social historians tend to support the view that industrialisation destroyed the apprenticeship system.
NOUN· And that is when it becomes art history.· A new hierarchy, sustained by art history, will be imposed through the photograph.· He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history.· Even students in art history and philosophy are getting hired by management consultants, Sanborn said.· She specialised in art history and education and her studies took her to Paris and Florence.· Traditional art history would include Bonnard for his technical innovations and largely marginalise Rodchenko for his politics and photography.· Hence, interest was slight and sporadic, and the works were not assimilated into mainstream western art history.· By the postwar period, modernism had become part of art history.
· Duval is the one taking aim at the history books, four or more in a row.· A flick through the history books reveals the story of Atalantas, after whom her club is named.· Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books.· The first pictorial record of flowers from a sixteenth-century garden marks the highlight of this sale of travel and natural history books.· Indeed, the 1996 campaign season is headed for the history books as the most costly in history.· And with Twickenham hosting the final, the 2001 winners are poised to enter the history books.· Democrats want a convention for the history books.
· Outline case histories will be built up concerning many thousands of individual victims.· To address such concerns, chapter 3 starts with two case histories from my own leadership experiences.· A case history will illustrate what I mean.· However, the so-called case histories which they composed with such artistic aplomb prove nothing.· They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories.· The network would be trained to associate symptoms and diagnoses from a database of case histories.· Cathy Troupp was talking to a specialist couple counsellor about this month's case history.· The system was trained on more than 10, 000 credit case histories.
· Bowel cancer About one in ten people with bowel cancer have a family history of the disease.· Associated vomiting and photophobia. 4. Family history of migraine.· I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology.· Is there a family history of tremor?· Perhaps he should stay with his family history and forget anything else.· Furthermore, they are unlikely to find their complete family history ready to be downloaded at the click of a mouse.· He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.· Given their family histories, turmoil feels comfortable.
· The first section of his book gives a brief life history supported by a collection of his superb pencil sketches.· The main emphasis of Hume's book is the inter-relationships between nutrition, reproductive performance and life histories of marsupials.· But events in one's life history could change this.· The teacher could begin with the child's own brief life history, moving on to the history of their family.· The third consequence of a bottlenecked life history is a genetic one.· A good example are the reminiscence and life history projects now active in many areas of the country.
· A military history professor is retiring.· Actually, Wilson had suffered a series of strokes, starting at age thirty-nine when he was a history professor at Princeton.· A history professor at Baghdad University, Sadoun Fadil, said people rally around their leader during hard times.· He was going to bury himself in a library for a few years, then become a history professor.
· Before turning to the individual arguments for teaching history it would be worthwhile emphasising the professional integrity of history teachers.· Another teacher who moved me was an assistant principal named Cho, who doubled as a history teacher.· I had a history teacher in college who was tough and sharp.· My history teacher, who was a liberal, joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue.· As a matter of fact, her plan was to become a high-school history teacher.· Unusually, he is not an investment analyst, but a former history teacher.· Bill supported the family as a high-school history teacher.
VERB· I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology.· These few lucky observers had witnessed the most spectacular meteor shower in recorded history, surpassing even the 1833 Leonids.· If women criminals are reluctant to publicise their activities, they are also often inaccessible to researchers wanting to record their histories.· No lunar atmosphere or hydrosphere exists, nor has any existed for its entire span of recorded history.· Trails of electric light icicles hang from gutters in Miami and Honolulu, where it has never snowed in recorded history.· It is intended to record history and those who were part of it.· Within recorded history goose numbers have never been greater.· When the first Raikas were created in this world, so was my family to record their history.
· It goes back more than 200 years and forms an enormous resource for those studying the history of the Commonwealth.· You study the history of religions, comparative religion, the scriptures of the world, maybe the psychology of religion.· If it is vocationally disadvantageous to study history at school, it must be vocationally suicidal to study the subject at university.· What had I really learned from studying history and psychology and philosophy and literature?· Well, one gets a bit tired of studying ancient history.· Many overseas students come to study the languages, history, culture and traditions of this country.· As Figure 1.3 shows, those who study history are eminently trainable for a wide variety of occupations.
· Limbaugh is complaining about the teaching of history.· Moving from research to teaching history is like moving from one watercourse to another...· Old people are often a source of fascinating information and opinion about the past that young people are being taught as history!· For the next few years, Sister Teresa taught geography, history and catechism, and performed several other duties besides.· My brief was to teach art and history of art to all age groups.· He had taught history of some kind, although Glover never bothered in forty-five years to find out what kind.· Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present.· I teach history at the high school and junior high school levels.
· You see, when you win the National, you write your name into history.· His name has been written in the history books.· The history of art, he wrote, is the history of dead-ends transformed into springboards.· Passing over in silence what the people think of the imam is a priority in that writing of history.· He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.· The redaction critics claim: It is important to realise that the Gospel writers were not writing history as we understand it.· And how incredibly generous this man was; he seeded friendships that still write the history of the West.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► have a checkered history/career/past etc► a page in history
- As the scholar says, history repeats itself.
- Alas, like so many things which get into the history books, it wasn't quite like that.
- And straight into the history books at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
- Democrats want a convention for the history books.
- Every New Hampshire presidential primary is one for the history books.
- Moms have always worked, but it was a big secret left out of the history books.
- The battle is important in the history books as one of the final skirmishes in that war, as Gen.
- The blighters have even been immortalised in the history books.
- Where does the dividing line come between yesterday's news and the history books?
- But then he started scribbling away at A Year in Provence and the rest is history.
- Dependence was imposed and the rest is history and green beans, cotton tee-shirts, patronage, and serfdom.
- He was initially hired by the Oxford Mail, then began to concentrate on sport, and the rest is history.
- Manufacturers responded by building cheaper modem hardware, and the rest is history.
- She noticed that he had a cute bum - and the rest is history.
- Then, when he was 17, he picked up a basketball, and the rest is history.
- But that's history now the children are back in the classroom.
- Lindbergh made history when he flew across the Atlantic in 1927.
- Christie in with the in-crowd Zola ... about to make history or just history?
- He then walked off, having made television history-and, one might say, having made history good television.
- It made history, becoming the highest-rated television program ever.
- Maybe they knew this was their big moment, their chance to make history.
- The 1995 Legislature made history by getting half way there.
- While Powell provided the drama, Lewis simply made history on the fifth day of the Olympic Trials.
- You can not make histories, you can not write books without order.
- 1989 will go down in history as the year in which Stalinist Communism ended.
- This Minister will go down in history as the Minister who killed off small shops in Britain.
- Will and I broke up a long time ago - that's ancient history now.
- But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.
- For one thing, this is not ancient history.
- He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history.
- He was very fond of ancient histories, stories and epics of earlier times and heroes.
- It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.
- Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history, a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.
- That, too, seemed like ancient history now.
- The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history.
- At present these are banned, as are crossbows, but will these eventually be admitted with the march of progress?
- But in 1874-not ten years earlier or later-city and nation endured a painful pause in the march of progress.
- Like Franco, Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history.
- New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time.
- They succeeded because they brought hope to the losers whom the march of progress had left behind.
- This little community is still in existence, largely untouched by the march of time.
- Keeping a job file Your employer will have a personnel file containing a potted history of your career with the company.
- Martin's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon.
- They were farcically satirical potted biographies in sets of two rhyming couplets.
- Woven into these personal accounts are potted histories of disturbing events, ancient and modern.
- Both are clifftop courses that are steeped in history.
- The area is steeped in history.
- The Hotel has great character and is steeped in history.
- They brought with them a heritage and culture that is steeped in history and literature.
WORD FAMILYnounhistorianhistoryprehistoryadjectivehistoricprehistorichistoricaladverbhistorically
1past events [uncountable] all the things that happened in the past, especially the political, social, or economic development of a nation: Throughout history the achievements of women have been largely ignored.history of the post-war history of Europe No man in recent history has done more to rebuild the Democratic Party. the early history of Scotland Other meteor storms have occurred in recorded history. a museum devoted to local history one of the darkest episodes in American history an interesting period in Egyptian history a decision that changed the course of history a college steeped in history History shows that the usual response to violent protest is repression.2development of something [singular, uncountable] the events that took place from the beginning and during the development of a particular place, activity, institution etchistory of the worst disaster in the history of space travellong/brief/75-year etc history The 1970s were the most successful in the theater’s long history.3subject [uncountable] the study of past events as a subject in school or universityEuropean/art/economic etc history a degree in European historyancient/modern history a history lesson4account [countable] an account of past eventshistory of a history of World War II a potted history (=very short) of Gielgud’s life (BrE)5past life [countable, uncountable] a record of something that has affected someone or been done by them in the pastmedical/employment/career etc history Your doctor will ask for your medical history.history of Is there any history of heart disease in your family? The defendant had a history of violent assaults on women.6make history to do something important that will be recorded and remembered: Lindbergh made history when he flew across the Atlantic.7something will go down in history used to say that something is important enough to be remembered and recorded: This day will go down in history as the start of a new era in South Africa.8history repeats itself used to say that things often happen in the same way as they did before9the history books the record of past events: Mozart’s genius earned him a place in the history books.10... and the rest is history informal used to say that everyone knows the rest of a story you have been telling11that’s (past/ancient) history spoken informal used to say that something is not important anymore → natural history, case historyCOLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2adjectivesrecent/modern/contemporary history· The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.early/ancient history· He had studied ancient Roman history.recorded history (=history since people have written things down)· These were the worst floods in recorded history.local history (=the history of events in a particular local area)· The building is now a museum of local history.American/Chinese/British etc history· It was one of the worst peacetime disasters in American history.human history (=the history of people rather than the world itself)· World War I was the most destructive war in human history up to that time.political/social etc history· the political history of Germanyoral history (=history that is told by speaking and that often consists of personal memories)· Smith recorded the conversation for oral history.rich history (=an interesting and important history)· Greece has a very rich history.long history· The 1970s were the most successful in the theatre's long history.verbshistory shows/tells (that)· History shows that the usual response to violent protests is repression.go down in history (=be remembered for many years)· She will go down in history as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.make history (=do something important that will be recorded and remembered)· Ordinary Berliners made history when they tore down the wall.rewrite history (=change what we believe are the facts about the past)· They're trying to rewrite history to exaggerate their role in the war.trace the history of something (=find out what the history of something is)· James traces the history of modern cricket back to its beginnings in the late 1700s.shape history (=influence events that are recorded)· He is one of the politicians who shaped 20th century history.phrasesa period of/in history· a glorious period in English historythe first time in history (=the first time something has ever happened)· For the first time in history, an American president resigned his office.change the course of history (=do something that has many important effects)· Roosevelt and Churchill helped to change the course of history.be steeped in history (=be closely connected with important events in history)· Cambridge is steeped in history and tradition.consign something to the dustbin of history (=to forget about something that existed in the past – used especially when saying that you will feel glad when people have got rid of something)· One day nuclear weapons will be consigned to the dustbin of history.