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make history

make history verb: to do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.

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.

Forms of make history

third-person singular presentmakes history
present participlemaking history
past participlemade history
pastmade history

Questions about make history

What does make history mean?
Make history means to do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.
What part of speech is make history?
Make history is a verb.
What is the past tense of make history?
The past tense of make history is made history.

Words near make history in the dictionary

  1. make head or tail of
  2. make headway
  3. make heavy going of
  4. make heavy weather
  5. make heavy weather of
  6. make history
  7. make interesting
  8. make into
  9. make it
  10. make it big
  11. make it count

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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