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| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | past events, experiences |
| Synonyms: | antiquity, good old days*, past, yesterday, yesteryear, ancient times, bygone times, days of old, days of yore, old days, olden days |
| Antonyms: | future |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
| Synonyms: | account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, narration, narrative, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version, memoirs, prehistory |
| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
| Synonyms: | actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, education, environment, framework, history, practice, preparation, qualification, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing, accomplishments, acquirement, deeds, grounding, rearing |
| Antonyms: | foreground |
| Main Entry: | chronicle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, narrative |
| Synonyms: | annals, archives, diary, history, journal, narration, recital, record, register, report, story, version, prehistory, recountal |
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
| Synonyms: | account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing, explication |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | genealogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's family tree |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, derivation, descent, extraction, generation, heredity, history, line, lineage, pedigree, stock, strain, blood line, genetics, parentage, progeniture, stemma, stirps |
| Main Entry: | literature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written matter, both fictional and nonfictional |
| Synonyms: | abstract, article, biography, brochure, comment, composition, critique, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, drama, essay, exposition, history, humanities, information, leaflet, lit, lore, novel, observation, pamphlet, paper, poetry, précis, prose, report, research, story, summary, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, treatment, belles-lettres, books, classics, findings, letters, literary works, writings, written work |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | narrative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, tale |
| Synonyms: | account, anecdote, book, chronicle, description, detail, fiction, history, line, narration, plot, recount, report, statement, version, yarn*, chronology, long and short of it, potboiler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | version |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of a happening |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, chronicle, clarification, condensation, construction, exercise, form, history, interpretation, narrative, paraphrase, portrayal, reading, rendition, report, side, sketch, statement, story, tale, translation, variant, redaction, rendering, restatement, rewording, simplification, transcription |
| Main Entry: | liberal arts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | general knowledge studies |
| Synonyms: | history, language, literature, mathematics, philosophy, science, general education, liberal studies, trivium and quadrivium |
| Main Entry: | track record |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | record of performance |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, credentials, history, performance, record, statistics, track, performance history, stats |
| Main Entry: | social studies |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | school subject about society |
| Synonyms: | geography, government, history, civics, sociology |
| Main Entry: | account |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written description of past events |
| Synonyms: | bulletin, chronicle, detail, explanation, history, make*, narration, narrative, recital, report, run-down, score, story, tab, take, tale, version, ABCs, annal, blow by blow, lowdown, play by play, the picture, the whole picture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written description |
| Synonyms: | account, analysis, annotation, article, comment, commentary, composition, construction, critique, delineation, details, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, editorial, elucidation, essay, exegesis, explanation, exposé, history, illustration, interpretation, monograph, paper, piece, position paper, presentation, report, review, statement, story, study, tale, text, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, construal, enucleation, enunciation, explication, expounding, tractate |
| Main Entry: | past |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time gone by |
| Synonyms: | antiquity, good old days*, history, time immemorial*, yesterday, yesteryear, days gone by, former times, long ago, old lang syne, old times, olden days, times past, years ago, yore |
| Antonyms: | future, present |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | record |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of event or proceedings |
| Synonyms: | almanac, annals, archive, archives, chronicle, comic book, diary, directory, document, entry, evidence, file, history, inscription, jacket, journal, legend, log, manuscript, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, monument, note, register, remembrance, report, script, scroll, story, testimony, trace, track record*, transcript, witness, writing, documentation, memo, paper trail, registry, swindle sheet, transcription, written material |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | report |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, story |
| Synonyms: | address, announcement, article, brief, broadcast, cable, chronicle, communication, declaration, description, detail, digest, dispatch, handout, history, information, message, narration, narrative, news, note, opinion, outline, paper, picture, piece, précis, proclamation, pronouncement, résumé, recital, record, relation, release, rundown, scoop*, statement, summary, tale, telegram, tidings, version, wire, word*, write-up, blow by blow, communique, hot wire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger*, comedy, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, gag, history, information, legend, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, novel, parable, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn*, conte, folktale, long and short of it, news item, nonfiction, old saw, potboiler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, lot in life |
| Synonyms: | accident, break*, certainty, chance, circumstances, contingency, destiny, doom, expectation, experience, fighting chance*, fluke*, hazard, history, karma*, kismet*, life, luck, lucky break*, portion, providence, star, success, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, fifty-fifty*, fortuity, fortunateness, good break, lucked into, lucked out, luckiness, lucky hit, roll of the dice, run of luck, streak of luck, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence, duration |
| Synonyms: | being, career, continuance, course, cycle, endurance, epoch, era, expectancy, extent, generation, history, length, life span, lifetime, longevity, orbit, period, pilgrimage, record, season, span, survival, time, days |
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