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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A writer, student, or scholar of history.
  2. n. One who writes or compiles a chronological record of events; a chronicler.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A writer, compiler, or narrator of history.
  2. n. One who is versed in history.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
  2. n. One versed or well informed in history.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
  2. n. One versed or well informed in history.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

Etymologies

  1. From French historien (Wiktionary)

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  • jmjarmstrong JM wonders what the future holds for an historian. Jul 3, 2011

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