इतिहास की मीनिंग - itihaas kee meening

(the study of or a record of) past events considered together, especially events of a particular period, country, or subject:

I studied modern European history at college.

American history

Annie's decided to write a history of electronic music.

I only asked him for a cigarette, but two hours later he'd told me his whole life history.

[ U ] informal

something that happened or ended a long time ago and is not important now, or a person who is not important now, although they were in the past:

Last year's report is ancient history and totally irrelevant to the current situation.

"What about Dan - are you still seeing him?" "Oh, he's history."

More examples
  • Our guide told us a lot about the history of the castle.
  • He is the author of two books on French history.
  • Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the dawn of a new era in European history.
  • He knows a lot about the history of this area, so he is often asked to speak at local clubs and societies.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

History - general words

  • a page in/of history idiom
  • Age of Exploration
  • age of sail
  • alternative history
  • annal
  • antiquarian
  • antiquary
  • antique
  • digital age
  • heritage
  • histographer
  • historic
  • historical
  • historically
  • historiographer
  • legacy
  • modern
  • non-historical
  • revisionist
  • the Agrarian Revolution
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history noun (PARTICULAR RECORD)

C1 [ C usually singular ]

something that has been done or experienced by a particular person or thing repeatedly over a long period:

Her family has a history of heart problems.

There's a long history of industrial disputes at the factory.

He has a good credit history (= a good record of paying money that he owes).

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Events and occurrences

  • -athon
  • affair
  • back story
  • be (all) part of life's rich tapestry/pageant idiom
  • benefit
  • binge
  • brush
  • car wash
  • curveball
  • date night
  • edition
  • epiphenomenon
  • episode
  • near miss
  • occasion
  • occurrence
  • proceedings
  • reoccurrence
  • saga
  • thing
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Idiom

make history

(Definition of history from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

history | American Dictionary

history

noun

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/ˈhɪs·tə·ri, -tri/

history noun (PAST EVENTS)

[ C/U ]

(the study of) past events considered together, esp. events or developments of a particular period, country, or subject:

[ U ] I’m taking a course in American history.

[ C ] I’m reading a history of jazz (= a book that describes the development of this music).

history noun (REPEATED HAPPENINGS)

[ C usually sing ]

something that has been done or experienced by a particular person or thing many times over a long period:

Our family has a history of diabetes.

(Definition of history from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

history | Business English

history

noun [ C, usually singular ]

uk

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/ˈhɪstəri/
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a record of past events relating to a particular person or company:

This is the 50th consecutive month of uninterrupted job growth, the longest in the nation's history.

No one else in the Bank's long history has climbed all the way up the ladder.

When a person applies for a bank account or credit card, their credit history can be tracked.

career/employment/medical history

a record of actions or events that have happened often over a period of time:

a history of sth The company has had a history of difficult management-union relations.

(Definition of history from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of history

history

The other point about official histories is that they have a tradition of being rather bland, indeed boring, in tone.

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Indeed, from this perspective, one could equally well argue for similarities in their sociolinguistic histories.

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However, in the present study, boys' relationship histories were on a continuum going from not knowing each other to seeing their partners very often.

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Such reactions may be seen as perpetuating the immaturity of those with resistant histories and the expectations for rejection of those with avoidant histories.

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We refer to these classes as "no," "moderate," and "serious" histories of antisocial behavior.

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The central question in this literature is this: how do we rank possible histories of the world?

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Note that the proof does not require the background assumptions; it only requires the very weak assumption that there exist the three histories mentioned.

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Since then at least eight other cathedrals have been similarly memorialised and several other cathedral histories are currently in the process of being written.

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Utilitarianism and prioritarianism make a strong assumption about measures of how good lotteries over histories are for individuals, or for short, individual goodness measures.

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Another problem is that the agency histories are too often inadequate, inaccurate or simply incomprehensible.

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There are a number of possible reasons for the abbey's surprising absence from most religious histories of the period.

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Later chapters cover ores and waste products, diamonds and their histories and the nature of the planetary bodies of the solar system.

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Large forces and weighty histories are at work here, and their presence should be acknowledged and thought about.

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No simple equivalencewaa found in hs the distance histories of the profiles.

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Other population histories were considered to demonstrate the generality of (1) and (4).

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इतिहास को अंग्रेजी में क्या कहते हैं?

ग्रीस के लोग इतिहास के लिए "हिस्टरी" (history) शब्द का प्रयोग करते थे।

हिस्ट्री का क्या अर्थ होता है?

हिस्ट्री का हिंदी अर्थ किसी विषय या घटना की पृष्ठभूमि या कथा।

राजनीति को अंग्रेजी में क्या कहते हैं?

political {adj.}

विज्ञान को इंग्लिश में क्या कहा जाता है?

A science is the study of some aspect of human behaviour, for example sociology or anthropology. Science is the study of the nature and behaviour of natural things and the knowledge that we obtain about them.