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HISTORIOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does historiography mean? 

HISTORIOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun HISTORIOGRAPHY has 2 senses:

1. a body of historical literatureplay

2. the writing of historyplay

  Familiarity information: HISTORIOGRAPHY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HISTORIOGRAPHY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A body of historical literature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("historiography" is a kind of...):

literature (published writings in a particular style on a particular subject)

Derivation:

historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The writing of history

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("historiography" is a kind of...):

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)


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