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historian(dictionary)

historian (iou)



historian noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French historien, from Latin historia after logicien etc.: see -AN, -IAN.]
A writer of history, esp. a critical analyst, as opp. to a chronicler or compiler; a person learned in history; a student of history. (Freq. with specifying word.) LME.
ancient historian, economic historian, French historian, Marxist historian, medieval historian, modern historian, social historian, etc.
R. Scruton Historians discuss the origins of the state. M. Seymour-Smith When literary historians come to record the development of modernism..they ignore Graves.
A storyteller. L16-M17.