1.the aggregate of past events;
a critical time in the school's history
2.the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future;
all of human history
3.a record or narrative description of past events;
a history of France
4.the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings;
he teaches Medieval history
5.all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge;
the dawn of recorded history