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say it: HI-stur-ee
history is a noun meaning "the aggregate of past events". It is pronounced /ˈhɪstɚi/ — HI-stur-ee. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the aggregate of past events
“a critical time in the school's history”
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”
history
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
“he teaches Medieval history”
“history takes the long view”
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
“all of human history”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for history come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.