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

In their heyday in the 1950s there were more than 4,000 in America -- but now only 300 or so remain, said Gary Rhodes, a movie historian.

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In recent years, Maine has entered what Todd Little-Siebold, a historian at the College of the Atlantic, calls an “apple renaissance.”

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Variety, says the historian Paul Freedman, is the hallmark of American cuisine.

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In 1983, the cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder had his first encounter with the art collection of the art critic and historian Douglas Cooper.

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Key to the aesthetic and historical authenticity of “Aztec Batman” was the knowledge that Alejandro Díaz Barriga, one of the most prominent historians of Aztec culture, shared with the production.

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