What is "historian" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does historian mean in English? Meaning of historian definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "historian" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "historian": a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

Noun

  • Meaning: a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
  • Synonyms: historian historiographer
  • Hyponyms: annalist art historian chronicler
  • Hypernyms: bookman scholar scholarly person student
  • Instance Hyponyms: alfred thayer mahan arendt arnold joseph toynbee arnold toynbee arthur meier schlesinger arthur meier schlesinger jr. arthur schlesinger arthur schlesinger jr. baeda barbara tuchman barbara wertheim tuchman barthold george niebuhr beda bede c. northcote parkinson c. vann woodward carlyle comer vann woodward cyril northcote parkinson durant edward gibbon elie wiesel eliezer wiesel eusebius eusebius of caesarea first baron macaulay flavius josephus fourth earl of orford franklin frederic william maitland frederick jackson turner gaius cornelius tacitus gardiner george macaulay trevelyan george otto trevelyan gibbon hannah arendt herodotus horace walpole horatio walpole james harvey robinson john bach mcmaster john hope franklin john knox joseph ben matthias josephus knox livy lord macaulay macaulay mahan maitland mcmaster mommsen niebuhr parkinson publius cornelius tacitus robinson saint baeda saint beda saint bede samuel rawson gardiner saxo grammaticus schlesinger sir george otto trevelyan sir paul gavrilovich vinogradoff st. baeda st. beda st. bede stubbs tacitus the venerable bede theodor mommsen thomas babington macaulay thomas carlyle thucydides titus livius toynbee trevelyan tuchman turner vinogradoff walpole wiesel will durant william james durant william stubbs woodward xenophon
  • Pronunciation in US: /hɪˈstɔɹiən/

    Pronunciation in UK: /hɪˈstɔːɹɪən/

  • Adjective: A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.One versed or well informed in history.
  • Synonyms:

    professor, writer, teacher, chronicler, historiographer, annalist,

    Antonyms:

    pupil, student,

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