historiographer

1. 1.

   a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

   Synonymshistorian

   Broaderscholar

   Narrowerannalistart historianchroniclerArendtBedeCarlyleDurantEusebiusFranklinGardiner

   history

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: hi-sto-ri-o-gra-pher. The stress falls on "o".

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.