historic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Very important

   Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

   • A historic opportunity
   • July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
   • The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
2. 2

   Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.

   • Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.
3. 3

   Synonym of historical

   Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)

   • An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.
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   1. 4

      Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.

      • The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.
   2. 5

      A history, a non-fiction account of the past.

      • Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.
   3. 6

      A historian.

The neighborhood

• synonymnotable
• synonymsignificant
• synonymlandmark
• synonymmomentous
• synonymgroundbreaking
• synonymimportant
• synonymdated
• synonymold-fangled
• synonymoutdated
• synonymbygone
• synonymforegone
• synonympast
• antonymunhistoric
• neighborhistoricaster