# historic

Pronunciation: US say "hi-STOR-ik" /hɪˈstɔɹɪk/; UK say "hi-STO-rik" /hɪˈstɒɹɪk/

## Adjective

1. Having major importance or significance in history; likely to be remembered.
   - Simple: Important enough to be remembered in history.
   - _The signing of the peace treaty was a historic moment for both nations._
   - _Voters took part in a historic election that shattered turnout records._
2. Old-fashioned and untouched by modern life, preserving the look and feel of an earlier time.
   - Simple: Old and kept the same as in the past, not changed by modern life.
   - _The town's historic quarter keeps its old gas lamps and cobblestone lanes, free of modern storefronts._
   - _They bought a historic farmhouse and left every original beam untouched by renovation._
4. In grammar, describing a tense or mood used specifically for narrating past events, such as the historic present.
   - Simple: Describing the special verb forms used to tell about things that happened in the past.
   - _The narrator slips into the historic present to make the battle feel immediate._
   - _Latin grammar describes a historic infinitive used in vivid past narration._

## Adjective

3. Concerning, or in accordance with, recorded history or the past in general; used as a synonym of historical. *(rare)*
   - Simple: Having to do with recorded history or the past in general.
   - _The novel blends historic fact with imaginative storytelling._
   - _Researchers combed through historic records to trace the family's origins._

## Noun

5. A non-fiction account of the past; a written history. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A book or report that tells the true story of the past.
   - _He labored for years over a historic of the realm's ancient wars._
   - _Her shelves were lined with historics of vanished empires._
6. A person who studies or writes history; a historian. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A person who writes about or studies the past.
   - _The court historic recorded every detail of the king's campaigns._
   - _The monastery trained historics to chronicle each passing generation._

## Origin

From Latin historicus ('historical'), which came from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, 'exact; historical'). It is related to French historique and can be seen as history plus the suffix -ic.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/historic (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).