historian
noun
an expert in history; authority on history.
historians
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pluralof historian.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That possibility gives historians a new way to interpret the AKL and the political motives behind it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
And that was essentially a bat signal for scholars and historians to try to come up with those reasons and feed them to the court.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026
In fact, historians do not really know how it was pronounced, he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is, in part, a consideration of how historians could attempt to treat folkloric knowledge as equivalently valuable to documentary evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some historians believe that Rivington managed to get his hands on a copy of the flag signal codebook, which he passed to one of Washington’s best operatives, the daring Allan McLane.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
