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deep histories

deep histories is the plural of deep history.

Meaning of deep history

Noun

deep history (countable and uncountable, plural deep histories)

  1. The distant past of the human species, going further back than prehistory and considering the evolution of modern human anatomy.
    • “In the last two or three decades, historians have found it hard to think across large time spans,” he contends; gone are the sweeping narratives of humanity’s advance. The antidote to this “shallow history,” he said, is “deep history,” stretching back 50,000, 500,000, even 2.6 million years to the...2011 September 26, Patricia Cohen, quoting Daniel Lord Smail, “History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about deep histories

What is deep histories the plural of?
Deep histories is the plural of deep history.

Words near deep histories in the dictionary

  1. deep fryers
  2. deep frying
  3. deep funk
  4. deep geological repositories
  5. deep geological repository
  6. deep histories
  7. deep history
  8. deep house
  9. deep inelastic collision
  10. deep inelastic collisions
  11. deep inside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deep histories (page history and authors); deep history (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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