historial
/hɪsˈtɔːɹiəl/
historial adjective: synonym of historical or historic.
Adjective
historial (comparative more historial, superlative most historial)
- Synonym of historical or historic.
- The Swedes become excellent citizens of a republic for that very reason: reverence for, and loyalty to, the institutions and historial development of the country in which they dwell.1899, Victor Nilsson, “Progress and Prosperity—Oscar II”, in Sweden, New York, N.Y.: Peter Fenelon Collier, →OCLC, page 434
- Station KVOA-TV has ingeniously tied in many factors to provide itself with a giant color send-off. The factors are these: Tucson every day stages its “Old Tucson Days,” a big historial celebration.1956 November 24, “Top Show Pluggers”, in The Billboard, 62nd year, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2
- Synonyms:
- historical, historic
Noun
historial (plural historials)
- Synonym of history or record.
- And the Greeke Church doth celebrate his [Constantine’s] feaſt as a Saint, vpon the twentith day of Aprill. And ſo doe alſo defend his faich and holines both in life and death Antonivs Sabellicvs in his Æneades; Platina in the life of Pope Marcvs; Pomponivs Letvs in his abridgement of the Romane...1604, Pedro Mexia, translated by W[illiam] Traheron, “The Life of Constantine the Great, […]”, in The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, […], London: […] Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, page 317
- To put it sympathetically, historials were praised for their ability to reduce the flux of the past to an ordered, patterned account which had a satisfactory overall shape.1991, Ruth Morse, “The meaning of the past”, in Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reality, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86
- Synonyms:
- history or record
Synonyms of historial
- historical
- historic
- history or record
Forms of historial
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more historial |
| superlative | most historial |
| Noun | |
| plural | historials |
Origin of historial
From Middle English historial, from Middle French historial (French historial) and its etymon Latin historiālis. By surface analysis, history + -al. Piecewise doublet of storial.
Words that rhyme with historial
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- arboreal
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- sartorial
- senatorial
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- tutorial
- accusatorial
- assessorial
- censorial
- combinatorial
- conspiratorial
- corporeal
- cursorial
- dictatorial
- directorial
- editorial
- enchorial
- epichorial
- executorial
- grallatorial
- imperatorial
- incorporeal
- intracorporeal
- lavatorial
- marmoreal
- multifactorial
- observatorial
- piscatorial
- primorial
- promontorial
- proprietorial
- purgatorial
- rasorial
- responsorial
- saltatorial
- scansorial
- sectorial
- spectatorial
- suctorial
- tectorial
- uxorial
- vectorial
- advertorial
- agitatorial
- amatorial
- ambassadorial
- ambulatorial
- ancestorial
- armorial
- assertorial
- auctorial
- auditorial
- authorial
Questions about historial
- What does historial mean?
- Historial means synonym of historical or historic.
- What part of speech is historial?
- Historial can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce historial?
- Historial is pronounced /hɪsˈtɔːɹiəl/.
Words near historial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: historial (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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