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Plural of history

regular plural

The plural of history is histories.

Forms of history

Singularhistory /ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/
Pluralhistories
Countablecountable and uncountable

Histories in a sentence

  • I really enjoyed Shakespeare's tragedies more than his histories.
  • The herpetofaunas of the two regions reflect the differences in their geological histories.From the entry herpetofauna
  • This would include Mahabharata and Ramayana as well as the Puranas and regional histories.2020 November 10, 25,000 Cubic Feet Of Stone Carved In India For Abu Dhabi's First Hindu Temple. From the entry mandir
  • Hereness demands that we learn our local histories and resurrect hidden ones of our own.2018 April 16, Jacob Plitman, “On an Emerging Diasporism”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023. From the entry neighborliness
  • Oral histories describe how ancient angara were tribal and nomadic before settling in cities.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara Codex entry. From the entry tight-knit

Meaning of history

  1. noun The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.
  2. noun The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
  3. noun The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it.

Full definition of history

Questions about the plural of history

What is the plural of history?
The plural of history is histories.
Is history countable?
History is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: history (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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