historian
noun /hɪˈstɔːriən/
/hɪˈstɔːriən/
- a person who studies or writes about history; an expert in history Some speakers do not pronounce the ‘h’ at the beginning of historian and use ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before it. This now sounds old-fashioned.
- No serious historian today accepts this theory.
- Revisionist historians have questioned the accepted version of events.
- She is a writer as well as a distinguished modern historian.
- The oldest tradition goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe.
- What will future historians make of the late 20th century?
- a talk given by an eminent social historian
- the official historian of the Labour Party
- the official historian of the United States Army
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- distinguished
- eminent
- great
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French historien, via Latin from Greek historia ‘finding out, narrative, history’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root shared by wit ‘have knowledge’.