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minihistory

minihistory noun: a brief history.

Noun

minihistory (plural minihistories)

  1. A brief history.
    • With 80 works ranging from folksy illustrations to precisionist Dutch-inspired landscapes and loose 20th-century abstractions, it offers a minihistory of American painting but also challenges tired notions about watercolor as an amateur’s medium.2007 September 15, Martha Schwendener, “Bringing Out the Leading Lights in a Watercolor Show”, in New York Times

Forms of minihistory

pluralminihistories

Origin of minihistory

From mini- + history.

Questions about minihistory

What does minihistory mean?
Minihistory means a brief history.
What part of speech is minihistory?
Minihistory is a noun.
What is the plural of minihistory?
The plural of minihistory is minihistories.

Words near minihistory in the dictionary

  1. Minihane
  2. minihelices
  3. minihelix
  4. minihelixes
  5. minihistories
  6. minihistory
  7. minihole
  8. miniholes
  9. miniinvasive
  10. minijack
  11. minijacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: minihistory (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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