historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-]

noun

1. an expert in history; authority on history.

2. a writer of history; chronicler.

historian

/ hɪˈstɔːrɪən /

noun

1. a person who writes or studies history, esp one who is an authority on it

Word History and Origins

Origin of historian¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See history, -an

Example Sentences

Athens’s wealth enabled a deeper division of labor and the rise of professions like philosopher, historian, sculptor, architect, playwright and actor.

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The current exhibition was pulled together with the help of an expanded network of scholars, archivists, curators and historians.

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If historians fail to teach us this fuller perspective, then the teaching of history has failed.

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Perhaps the Lyceum Speech has lingered outside the main Lincoln canon because it does not sound like the man Eric Foner, a historian, has called “Our Lincoln.”

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“Business finally awoke to the potential of such devices,” writes historian Robert Sobel in “The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.”

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