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made history

made history is the simple past and past participle of make history.

Meaning of make history

Verb

make history (third-person singular simple present makes history, present participle making history, simple past and past participle made history)

  1. (idiomatic) To do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.
    • Neil Armstrong made history in 1969 when he was the first person to walk on the Moon.

Questions about made history

What is made history the simple past and past participle of?
Made history is the simple past and past participle of make history.

Words near made history in the dictionary

  1. made head or tail of
  2. made headway
  3. made heavy going of
  4. made heavy weather
  5. made heavy weather of
  6. made history
  7. made in China
  8. made in Japan
  9. made in the shade
  10. made interesting
  11. made into

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Adapted from Wiktionary: made history (page history and authors); make 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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