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future history

future history noun: a postulated history of the future that is used by authors in the subgenre of science fiction to construct a common background for fiction.

Noun

future history (countable and uncountable, plural future histories)

  1. (countable) A postulated history of the future that is used by authors in the subgenre of science fiction to construct a common background for fiction.
  2. (humorous, often, uncountable) Future events perceived or analyzed chronologically, as compared to history.
    • (the speaker is a time traveller from the future) Well, lad, I would tell you more, but that's just future history that you must figure out on your own.

Forms of future history

pluralfuture histories

Questions about future history

What does future history mean?
Future history means a postulated history of the future that is used by authors in the subgenre of science fiction to construct a common background for fiction.
What part of speech is future history?
Future history is a noun.
What is the plural of future history?
The plural of future history is future histories.

Words near future history in the dictionary

  1. future endeavors
  2. future faking
  3. future funk
  4. future garage
  5. future histories
  6. future history
  7. future house
  8. future interest
  9. future interests
  10. future participle
  11. future participles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: future 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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