Historian - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |hɪˈstɔːrɪən|  American pronunciation of the word historian
Brit.  |hɪˈstɔːrɪən|  British pronunciation of the word historian

noun

- a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it (syn: historiographer)

Extra examples

...historians are still trying to sort out fact from fiction in the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks...

The art historian is studying the continuities between the painter's works and those of her followers.

...that historian's dryasdust prose desiccates what is actually an exciting period in European history...

...a gastronomist and food historian who is very knowledgeable about Spanish cuisine...

...was disappointed in the renowned historian's latest book, which is only middling...

...the historian reserved his greatest contempt for those recreants who opposed the witch hunt but lacked the courage to speak out against it...

We can start by comparing the work of the historian with the work of the politician.

My father was a historian of repute. His speciality was the history of Germany.

Marx was strongly influenced by the historian Niebuhr.

He was a man of many parts: writer, literary critic and historian.

One historian was said to have had no nose at all, only an apology for one.

Word forms

noun
singular: historian
plural: historians
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