historic
Meaning of historic
- A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
- A historian.
- Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
A historic opportunity
- Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
- (grammar) Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
The Royal Historical Society
- Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
historical-political
Information about historic
- The plural form of historic is: historics.
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Hyphenation of historic
his-toric
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- historic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
historic synonyms
Meaning historical:
Meaning :
bygone, foregone, dated, outdated, groundbreaking, important, landmark, momentous, notable, significant, ancient, former, old, past, historial
historic antonyms
Meaning :
unhistoric, ahistorical, anachronistic, expected, future, projected, contemporary, modern, present
Translation of historic
- German: geschichtlich, historisch
- Italian: storico
- Spanish: histórico, histórica
- French: historique
- Portuguese: histórico
Anagrams of historic
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