historical
Pronunciation: /hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/
The English word “historical” has 12 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- About history; depicting persons or events from history.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- Set in the past.
- Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
- One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
- Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
- Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
- Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically"
noun
- A historical romance.
Etymology
From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.
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