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hystory

hystory noun: feminist spelling of history.

Noun

hystory (countable and uncountable, plural hystories)

  1. (rare) Feminist spelling of history.

Forms of hystory

pluralhystories

Origin of hystory

Wordplay, replacing the supposed occurrence of the male pronoun his with hystero-; compare herstory.

Questions about hystory

What does hystory mean?
Hystory means feminist spelling of history.
What part of speech is hystory?
Hystory is a noun.
What is the plural of hystory?
The plural of hystory is hystories.

Words near hystory in the dictionary

  1. hystoric
  2. hystorical
  3. hystoricall
  4. hystorie
  5. hystories
  6. hystory
  7. hystos
  8. hystrichosphere
  9. hystrichospheres
  10. hystriciasis
  11. hystricid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hystory (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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