historic

Alternative forms

 * historick, hystoric, historique

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with French.

Adjective

 * 1) Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
 * 2) Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
 * 3) * 1756 August, Horace Walpole, letter republished in Private Correspondence (1820), Vol. II, No. 1:
 * Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.
 * : of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
 * 1)  Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
 * Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.
 * : of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
 * 1)  Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
 * 1)  Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , ; see also Thesaurus:important
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:past
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:past

Translations

 * Asturian: históricu
 * Bashkir: тарихи
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 有歷史意義,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ajalooline
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ისტორიული
 * German: ,
 * Haitian Creole: istorik
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 역사적인
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: vēsturisks
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: historisk
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: eachdraidheil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: makasaysayan
 * Telugu: చారిత్రక
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: істори́чний

Noun

 * 1)  A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
 * 2)  A historian.
 * 1)  A historian.