historic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   important in history

   the historic first voyage to outer space

2. 2
   adj

   Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

   A historic opportunity

3. 3
   adj

   Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.

   Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.

4. 4
   adj

   Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)

   An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.

5. 5
   adj

   Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.

   The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.

6. 6
   noun

   A history, a non-fiction account of the past.

   Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.

7. 7
   adj

   belonging to the past

8. 8
   noun

   A historian.

Etymology

From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique. By surface analysis, history + -ic.