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historical society

historical society noun: an organization dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often related to a specific geographic area or time period.

Noun

historical society (plural historical societies)

  1. An organization dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often related to a specific geographic area or time period.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see historical, society.

Forms of historical society

pluralhistorical societies

Questions about historical society

What does historical society mean?
Historical society means an organization dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often related to a specific geographic area or time period.
What part of speech is historical society?
Historical society is a noun.
What is the plural of historical society?
The plural of historical society is historical societies.

Words near historical society in the dictionary

  1. historical novelists
  2. historical novels
  3. historical present
  4. historical research
  5. historical societies
  6. historical society
  7. historical sociology
  8. historical subject
  9. historical subjects
  10. historical-critical
  11. historical-grammatical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: historical society (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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