Collocations for "history"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "history" in context.
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history
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [American, automotive, art, natural, 18th-century] history
- [local, national, foreign] history
- your [medical, personal, criminal] history
- the (true) history behind the [news, incident]
- in recent history
- is ancient history
- the history of [America, cars, medicine]
- the [tallest, fastest, longest] in history
- history and [culture, philosophy]
- history repeats itself
- history always remembers
- history [remembers, records, tells us, has it] that
- will be recorded (forever) by history
- will go down in history as
- go down in the annals of history
- [the story, their actions, her name] will echo through history
- studied history in [school, college]
- majoring in [American] history
- have a (long) history together
- have a brief history [in accounting, with that company]
- the [ship, building, town] has a curious history
- had a history of [trouble, problems, injuries]
- (and) the rest is history
- you're history!
- [view, delete] your [purchase, search, internet] history
- check your credit history
- in the history books
- is a history [professor, teacher, student]
- go to the history museum
- the Natural History Museum
- [Black, African-American, Women's] History Month
'history' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
American
- Australia
- British
- Chinese
- English
- France
- Greece
- Irish
- Jewish
- Netherlands
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- access
- accident
- aliment
- alter
- ancient
- archive
- assured
- average
- bachelor
- bid
- bidding
- book
- brief
- brilliant
- celebration
- century
- chapter
- chart
- check
- class
- colorful
- command
- corrupt
- course
- cultural
- dark
- department
- discipline
- discourse
- disruptive
- earn
- echo
- era
- essay
- expert
- family