history

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events.
• noun A formal written account of related natural phenomena.
• noun A record of a patient's general medical background.
• noun An established condition or pattern of behavior.
• noun The branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events.
• noun The past events relating to a particular thing.
• noun The aggregate of past events or human affairs.
• noun An interesting past.
• noun Something that belongs to the past.
• noun Slang One that is no longer worth consideration.
• noun A drama based on historical events.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To record; relate.
• noun A narrative, oral or written, of past events; a story: as, a history of England; a history of the civil war; a history of an individual.
• noun The recorded events of the past; also, that branch of science which is occupied with ascertaining and recording the facts of the past.
• noun Recorded or accomplished fact; also, the aggregate of the events, recorded or unrecorded, which mark a given period of past time, as in the development of an individual or of a race, etc.: as, a checkered history.
• noun An eventful career; a past worthy of record: as, a man with a history.
• noun In liturgics, in medieval English uses, as in the Use of Sarum, the series of responsories to a set of lections from the historical or other books of Scripture.
• noun A historical play or drama.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To narrate or record.
• noun A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record
• noun A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.
• noun a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action.
• noun a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The aggregate of past events.
• noun The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
• noun A set of events involving an entity.
• noun A record or narrative description of past events.
• noun medicine The list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
• noun computing A record of previous user events; specifically, a browser history, a history of visited Web pages.
• noun informal Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
• verb obsolete To narrate or record.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
• noun the aggregate of past events
• noun all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
• noun a record or narrative description of past events
• noun the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings