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historian

[ hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr- ]

noun

  1. an expert in history; authority on history.
  2. a writer of history; chronicler.


historian

/ hɪˈstɔːrɪən /

noun

  1. a person who writes or studies history, esp one who is an authority on it


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Word History and Origins

Origin of historian1

1400–50; late Middle English. See history, -an

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Example Sentences

Historian Matthew Avery Sutton, however, wants you to think of something else: the End Times.

Michael Kazin is a historian who has written a lot about the New Left.

Fred Logevall at Cornell won the Pulitzer Prize and is a diplomatic historian; he just started a book on Kennedy.

But Winning Marriage will be essential for the historian who, someday, tries to tell the full story.

“It was a moment of shock that Doar never forgot,” notes historian Taylor Branch.

Giovanni Francesca Abela, a historian and ecclesiastic of Malta, died.

Andrew Michael Ramsay, a Scottish historian and philosopher, died.

Buchanan the historian was, from his learning, thought in his days of superstition to be a wizard.

John Cantacuzenus, the historian of his own times, and a defender of the faith, inaugurated emperor of Constantinople.

No historian claims that any God has been seen on earth for nearly nineteen centuries.

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