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- DictionaryHis·tor·ic/hiˈstôrik/
adjective
- 1. famous or important in history, or potentially so: "we are standing on a historic site"
- 2. (of a tense) used in the narration of past events, especially Latin and Greek imperfect and pluperfect.
B1. connected with studying or representing things from the past: Many important historical documents were destroyed when the library was bombed. She specializes in historical novels set in 18th-century England. used to describe prices, values, etc. in the past: The table compares historical exchange rates for five different currencies.
B1. important or likely to be important in history: historic buildings. a historic day / moment. In a historic vote, the Church of England decided to allow women to become priests. law specialized. A historic offense is one that was committed by someone in the past but that they were not charged with at the time:
Historic definition: well-known or important in history. See examples of HISTORIC used in a sentence.
adjective. of, relating to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research. based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: a historical reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg.
Historic definition: well-known or important in history. See examples of HISTORIC used in a sentence.
Historical usually describes something that is connected with the past or with the study of history, or something that really happened in the past: a political system that arose from specific historical circumstances
belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past. “ historic victories”. “historical (or historic) times”. synonyms: historical. past. earlier than the present time; no longer current. adjective. important in history. “the historic first voyage to outer space”.
