historian
pronunciation
How to pronounce historian in British English:
UK [hɪˈstɔːriən]
How to pronounce historian in American English:
US [hɪˈstɔːriən]
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- Noun:
- a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
Word Origin
- historian (n.)
- mid-15c., from Middle French historien (14c.), from Latin historia (see history). As "writer of history in the higher sense" (distinguished from a mere annalist or chronicler), from 1530s. The Old English word was þeod-wita. [T]he historian's fallacy is the error of assuming that a man who has a given historical experience knows it, when he has had it, to be all that a historian would know it to be, with the advantage of historical perspective. [David Hackett Fischer, "Historians' Fallacies," 1970]
Example
- 1. He broke the seals ; what historian would not ?
- 2. A historian combines studying the past with living in the present .
- 3. Alongside his communism , he insisted on remaining a marxist historian .
- 4. As a historian , he sees how far the country has come .
- 5. I decide that I will approach our lunch conversation as one historian to another .