historiographer

Other forms of historiographer

plural

historiographers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about historiographer

What does historiographer mean?

historiographer means "a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it".

How many syllables are in historiographer?

historiographer has 6 syllables and divides as hi-sto-ri-o-gra-pher under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for historiographer?

Close synonyms include historian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is historiographer a common word?

historiographer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.