| Library / English Dictionary |
HISTORIC
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Important in history
Example:
the historic first voyage to outer space
Classified under:
Similar:
important; of import (of great significance or value)
Derivation:
history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)
history (a record or narrative description of past events)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
Example:
a historical character
Synonyms:
historic; historical
Classified under:
Similar:
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
Derivation:
history (all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge)
history (the aggregate of past events)
Context examples:
Similar to Voyager 1 and 2's historic observations, New Horizons also is on a path toward potential discoveries in the Kuiper Belt, which is a disc-shaped region of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune, and other unexplored realms of the outer solar system and beyond.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
