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historian


his·tor·ian [historian historians] BrE [hɪˈstɔːriən] NAmE [hɪˈstɔːriən] noun
a person who studies or writes about history; an expert in history  Some speakers do not pronounce the ‘h’ at the beginning of historian and use ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before it. This now sounds old-fashioned.

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French historien, via Latin from Greek historia ‘finding out, narrative, history’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root shared by wit ‘have knowledge’.

Example Bank:
No serious historian today accepts this theory.
Revisionist historians have questioned the accepted version of events.
She is a writer as well as a distinguished modern historian.
The oldest tradition goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe.
What will future historians make of the late 20th century?
a talk given by an eminent social historian
the official historian of the Labour Party
the official historian of the United States Army

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