history

1. (countable) A set of events involving an entity.Examples: "a long and sordid history"; "What is your medical history?"; "The family's history includes events best forgotten."countable

2. (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.Examples: "I really enjoyed Shakespeare's tragedies more than his histories."; "a short history of post-Columbian colonization"; "Thucydides wrote a history of the Peleponnesian War that uses different sources than Herodotus' work."Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, talecountable

3. (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.Examples: "A personal medical history is required for the insurance policy."; "He has a history of cancer in his family."; "This diagnosis is usually based solely on the history and physical examination, although laboratory tests are occasionally also obtained."Synonyms: medical historycountable

4. (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.Examples: "I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL. Luckily, I didn't clear my history."; "When you do that, the browser window has no browser history, so it doesn't report a referrer page to the first site you visit."Synonyms: logcountable

5. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.Examples: "I told him that if he doesn't get his act together, he's history."countableinformaluncountable

6. (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.Examples: "There is too much history between them for them to split up now."; "He has had a lot of history with the police."uncountable