"histories" in the noun sense
1. history
the aggregate of past events
"a critical time in the school's history"
2. history, account, chronicle, story
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"
3. history
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
"he teaches Medieval history"
"history takes the long view"
4. history
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
"all of human history"
5. 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"
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