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counterhistory

counterhistory noun: an alternative interpretation of history.

Noun

counterhistory (countable and uncountable, plural counterhistories)

  1. An alternative interpretation of history
    • It is a counterhistory, a celebration of an explorer scarcely known in the United States, an Italian-born, French-educated aristocrat, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza.2009 March 30, Edward Rothstein, “Casting a Sliver of Light on the Heart of Darkness”, in New York Times

Forms of counterhistory

pluralcounterhistories

Origin of counterhistory

From counter- + history.

Questions about counterhistory

What does counterhistory mean?
Counterhistory means an alternative interpretation of history.
What part of speech is counterhistory?
Counterhistory is a noun.
What is the plural of counterhistory?
The plural of counterhistory is counterhistories.

Words near counterhistory in the dictionary

  1. counterhegemonies
  2. counterhegemony
  3. counterhistorical
  4. counterhistorically
  5. counterhistories
  6. counterhistory
  7. counterhomeostatic
  8. counterhypertensive
  9. counterhypotheses
  10. counterhypothesis
  11. counterhypothetical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counterhistory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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