historical🔊

Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.

(literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.

Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.

(literature, art) Set in the past.

(uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.

(grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).

(obsolete, biology) Hereditary or evolutionary.

Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.

Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.

(uncommon) Important or likely to be important to history and historians. +

(Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical" or "historically").

A historical romance.