What is another word for Histories?

Pronunciation: [hˈɪstəɹˌiz] (IPA)

Histories can be referred to as chronicles, accounts, records, or narratives of past events that have occurred and their significance. Historical accounts are sometimes documented in annals, archives, or documents, while tales of the past can also be recounted as stories, legends, or folklore. Another synonym for histories is the term saga, which emphasizes the epic or grandeur of events that have been witnessed. Other phrases that connote the idea of history can include precedents, experiences, traditions, customs, and heritage. Whatever term is used, they all represent efforts to chronicle humanity's past and preserve it for future generations.

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Usage examples for Histories

As I observed in our following marches toward Svartevoeg, their keen eyes detect in shadows incidents and messages of life, Histories that would fill volumes.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
But of the reality of the crisis in the Italian book trade in 1472-3, although little is said of it in Histories of printing, there can be no doubt.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Then he said very slowly as though he were drawing in front of him the earliest Histories of his own past life....
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Histories

  • Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
    Alexander Pope
  • Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
    Alexander Pope
  • Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
    Francis Bacon
  • Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
    Francis Bacon

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