historians
UShi-STOR-ee-uhnz/hɪˈstɔɹi.ənz/UKhi-STAW-ree-uhnz/hɪˈstɔːɹɪənz/
- 1Plural of historian.
Modern historians have reexamined the causes of the revolution.
A panel of historians advised the museum on the exhibit.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s and taking a plural verb: historians agree, historians have argued. It carries every meaning of the singular. Besides writers and researchers of history, it can name people in a clinical setting who recount their own medical history. In most prose the scholarly meaning is the one intended, and surrounding talk of patients or symptoms signals the medical one.
historians is a form of historian
historian, noun: A person who studies or researches the events and people of the past. Full entry
- Forms
- historianhistorians plural
- Spelling
- historian → historians: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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