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HISTORICAL RECORD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does historical record mean?
• HISTORICAL RECORD (noun)
The noun HISTORICAL RECORD has 1 sense:
1. writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
Familiarity information: HISTORICAL RECORD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
historical document; historical paper; historical record
Hypernyms ("historical record" is a kind of...):
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
Context examples
Specifies whether the condition is considered part of the historical record of a subject, that is, it did not occur within the bounds of the study.
(Performed Medical Condition Result Medical History Indicator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Scientists continue to study the planet’s historical record, trying to understand the apparent shift from an early wet and warm climate to today’s dry and cool surface conditions.
(New Evidence for a Mars Water Reservoir, NASA)
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