historical
IPA: hɪstˈɔrɪkʌɫ
noun
- A historical romance.
adjective
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- (literature, art) Set in the past.
- (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
- (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
- (obsolete, biology) 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.
- (uncommon) Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
- Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
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