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makes history

makes history is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 makes history

What is makes history the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Makes history is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make history.

Words near makes history in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: makes 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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