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making history

making history is the present participle and gerund 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 making history

What is making history the present participle and gerund of?
Making history is the present participle and gerund of make history.

Words near making history in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: making 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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