Mean of word: historical | Dunno English Dictionary

historical [ hi·sto·ri·cal ]

[

US hɪˈstɔːrɪkl ]

[

UK hɪˈstɒrɪkl ]

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Of or concerning history or past events.

historical evidence

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Belonging to the past.

famous historical figures

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(especially of a novel or film) set in the past.

What about the real meaning of a historical record or a novel or a poem?

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(of the study of a subject) based on an analysis of its development over a period.

for the Darwinians, biogeography became a historical science

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On the use of an historical event or a historical event, see an

Late Middle English via Latin from Greek historikos (see historic).