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macrohistories

macrohistories is the plural of macrohistory.

Meaning of macrohistory

Noun

macrohistory (countable and uncountable, plural macrohistories)

  1. A form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.
    • These days, it’s chiefly nonhistorians like Jared Diamond and Tim Flannery who seek to trace the long arc of the species and write macrohistory in a scientific key.2008 March 16, Alexander Star, “I Feel Good”, in New York Times
    Antonyms:
    microhistory

Questions about macrohistories

What is macrohistories the plural of?
Macrohistories is the plural of macrohistory.

Words near macrohistories in the dictionary

  1. macrohistorian
  2. macrohistorians
  3. macrohistoric
  4. macrohistorical
  5. macrohistorically
  6. macrohistories
  7. macrohistory
  8. macrohomogeneities
  9. macrohomogeneity
  10. Macrohon
  11. macroimage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: macrohistories (page history and authors); macrohistory (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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