A historian is a person who specializes in the study of history, and who writes books and articles about it.
Synonyms: chronicler, recorder, biographer, antiquarian More Synonyms of historian
historian in British English
(hɪˈstɔːrɪən)
noun
a person who writes or studies history, esp one who is an authority on it
historian in American English
(hɪsˈtɔriən)
noun
1.
a writer of history
2.
an authority on or specialist in history
Word origin
MFr historien
Examples of 'historian' in a sentence
historian
American religious historians like me usually do not spend much time thinking about the rationale for doing what we do.
Christianity Today (2000)
His aim to link his research as a literary historian to the study of political history is successful only in part.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
You don't want to cross an architectural historian.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Normally in a documentary, writers and historians deliver overlapping soundbites that flesh out a central argument.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Want to be a historian and study Arabic?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The tone of the learned nineteenth-century Scottish writer and historian is both wise and disapproving.
Admiral Sandy Woodward, With Patrick Robinson ONE HUNDRED DAYS (2003)
Military historians are said to be'extremely excited' about the find.
The Sun (2009)
Like me, he's a military historian.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
At the time that part of East London was a shabby enclave favoured by artists and architectural historians.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
One day, film historians will study this ridiculous folly as an example of the worst excesses of the early 21st century.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I WONDER what future historians will write about us.
The Sun (2015)
Quotations
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completenessSimon SchamaDead Certainties
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each otherPhilip GuedallaSupers and Supermen
historian: a broad-gauge gossipAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
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In other languages
historian
British English: historian /hɪˈstɔːrɪən/ NOUN
A historian is a person who specializes in the study of history and who writes about it.
American English: historian
Arabic: مُؤرِّخ
Brazilian Portuguese: historiador
Chinese: 历史学家
Croatian: povjesničar
Czech: historik
Danish: historiker
Dutch: historicus
European Spanish: historiador
Finnish: historiantutkija
French: historien
German: Historiker
Greek: ιστορικός
Italian: storico
Japanese: 歴史家
Korean: 역사가
Norwegian: historiker
Polish: historyk
European Portuguese: historiador
Romanian: istoric
Russian: историк
Latin American Spanish: historiador
Swedish: historiker
Thai: นักประวัติศาสตร์
Turkish: tarihçi
Ukrainian: історик
Vietnamese: sử gia
Chinese translation of 'historian'
historian
(hɪˈstɔːrɪən)
n(c)
历(歷)史学(學)家 (lìshǐxuéjiā) (名, míng)
(noun)
Definition
a person who writes or studies history
She will become the family historian.
Synonyms
chronicler
the chronicler of the English civil war
recorder
I claim to be a recorder of inner conversations.
biographer
antiquarian
historiographer
annalist
chronologist
Quotations
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness [Simon Schama – Dead Certainties]History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other [Philip Guedalla – Supers and Supermen]historian: a broad-gauge gossip [Ambrose Bierce – The Devil's Dictionary]
Additional synonyms
in the sense of recorder
Definition
a person or machine that records, esp. a video, cassette, or tape recorder