Noun
1. the aggregate of past events;
"a critical time in the school's history"2. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future;
"all of human history"3. a record or narrative description of past events;
"a history of France""he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president""the story of exposure to lead"4. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings;
"he teaches Medieval history""history takes the long view"5. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge;
"the dawn of recorded history""from the beginning of history"