Phrase Hound found 28 phrases and 22 compound words that contain histories. The most common are listed below. Open histories in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 28
- case historiesplural of case history: The details of the history of some case (often medical).
- oral historiesplural of oral history: The collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
- histories of ideasplural of history of ideas
- alternate historiesplural of alternate history: Counterfactual history, a form of scientific speculation used by historians.
- family historiesplural of family history: An extension to genealogy in which the life and times of the people concerned are investigated.
- life historiesplural of life history: An investigation into the details and activities of a person over the course of their lifetime; one’s background.
- medical historiesplural of medical history: Details of a patient's previous medical experiences, such as existing comorbidities, past infections, operations undergone, and medications taken.
- natural historiesplural of natural history: The study of all living things, especially their origins, evolution and interrelationships.
- secret historiesplural of secret history: A revisionist interpretation of history, claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
- social historiesplural of social history: The history of society; an approach to and subfield of history that emphasizes social structures.
- pseudo-historiesplural of pseudo-history: False history.
- big historiesplural of big history: An academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present.
- call historiesplural of call history: An itemised list of the telephone numbers called from a particular account.
- computation historiesplural of computation history: a sequence of steps taken by an abstract machine in the process of computing its result.
- credit historiesplural of credit history: A record of a borrower's responsible repayment of debts.
- deep historiesplural of deep history: The distant past of the human species, going further back than prehistory and considering the evolution of modern human anatomy.
- employment historiesplural of employment history: A record of a person's prior work, typically including job titles, and dates when each position began and ended. It may also include specific skills used or tasks performed.
- future historiesplural of future history: A postulated history of the future that is used by authors in the subgenre of science fiction to construct a common background for fiction.
- pre-historiesplural of pre-history: The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
- prosecution historiesplural of prosecution history: The record of the examination of a patent application, including the original application, responses made by the examiner, and amendments made by the applicant to address objections raised by the examiner.
- shadow historiesplural of shadow history: A revisionist interpretation of history, claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
- time historiesplural of time history: A technique used in the field of structural dynamics to evaluate the behavior of structures under different loads and conditions, involving simulating the actual loads that a structure will experience over time.
- work historiesplural of work history: A record of a person's prior work, typically including job titles, and dates when each position began and ended. It may also include specific skills used or tasks performed.
- world historiesplural of world history: A field of historical study that examines history from a global perspective.
- germ historiesplural of germ history: Ontogeny, specifically as a supposed recapitulation of phylogeny.
Compound words 22
- allohistoriesplural of allohistory: Counterfactual history, a form of scientific speculation used by historians.
- althistoriesplural of althistory: Clipping of alternate history (“a genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events”).
- antihistoriesplural of antihistory: Spurious history.
- counterhistoriesplural of counterhistory: An alternative interpretation of history
- ethnohistoriesplural of ethnohistory: The history of an indigenous people
- forehistoriesplural of forehistory: The period of history preceding a given time or event; prior history.
- geohistoriesplural of geohistory: geographical history
- macrohistoriesplural of macrohistory: A form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.
- megahistoriesplural of megahistory: An extreme form of macrohistory, dealing with particularly large cultures over very long periods of time.
- metahistoriesplural of metahistory: The history of history itself.