noun
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Meanings
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A person who studies or writes about history.
The historian spent years researching the ancient city.
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· a person who studies or...
historiographer
Word family
Forms
historians
Derived forms
ecohistorianethnohistoriangeohistorianherstorianhistorianessmacrohistorianmicrohistoriannonhistorianprotohistorianpseudohistorianpsychohistoriansociohistorian
Etymology
From Middle English historian, historien, from Old French historien, from Latin historia (“story, history”), equivalent to histor(y) + -ian. More at history.
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