| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | past events, experiences |
Synonyms: |
ancient times, antiquity, bygone times, days of old, days of yore, good old days, old days, olden days, past, yesterday, yesteryear |
Antonyms: |
future |
| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
Synonyms: |
account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, memoirs, narration, narrative, prehistory, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version |
| Main Entry: | account |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written description of past events |
Synonyms: |
ABCs, annal, blow by blow, bulletin, chronicle, detail, explanation, history, lowdown, make*, narration, narrative, play by play, recital, report, run-down, score, story, tab, take, tale, the picture, the whole picture, version |
| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
Synonyms: |
accomplishments, acquirement, actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, deeds, education, environment, framework, grounding, history, practice, preparation, qualification, rearing, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing |
Antonyms: |
foreground |
| Main Entry: | chronicle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, narrative |
Synonyms: |
annals, archives, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version |
| 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, explication, 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 |
Antonyms: |
complication |
| Main Entry: | exposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written description |
Synonyms: |
account, analysis, annotation, article, comment, commentary, composition, construal, construction, critique, delineation, details, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, editorial, elucidation, enucleation, enunciation, essay, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposé, expounding, history, illustration, interpretation, monograph, paper, piece, position paper, presentation, report, review, statement, story, study, tale, text, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise |
| Main Entry: | fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, lot in life |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, accident, break*, certainty, chance, circumstances, contingency, destiny, doom, expectation, experience, fifty-fifty, fighting chance, fluke, fortuity, fortunateness, good break, hazard, history, karma*, kismet*, life, luck, lucked into, lucked out, luckiness, lucky break, lucky hit, portion, providence, roll of the dice, run of luck, star, streak of luck, success, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | genealogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's family tree |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, blood line, derivation, descent, extraction, generation, genetics, heredity, history, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, progeniture, stemma, stirps, stock, strain |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence, duration |
Synonyms: |
being, career, continuance, course, cycle, days, endurance, epoch, era, expectancy, extent, generation, history, length, life span, lifetime, longevity, orbit, period, pilgrimage, record, season, span, survival, time |