History crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “History” are STORY, with 5 letters. Below are 6 answers from 3 to 9 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

AGE 3 letters · noun

an era of history having some distinctive feature “we live in a litigious age”

STORY 5 letters · noun

a record or narrative description of past events “the story of exposure to lead”

RESUME 6 letters · noun

a summary of your academic and work history

ACCOUNT 7 letters · noun

a record or narrative description of past events “he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president”

CHRONICLE 9 letters · noun

a record or narrative description of past events

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “histories” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “history” means

• noun: the aggregate of past events (“a critical time in the school's history”)
• noun: a record or narrative description of past events (“a history of France”)
• noun: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings (“he teaches Medieval history”)
• noun: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future (“all of human history”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as HISTORY, and words whose definition is HISTORY. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.