HISTORIOGRAPHER

historian, historiographer

(noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

historiographer (plural historiographers)

A scholar who studies historiography.

Source: Wiktionary


His*to`ri*og"ra*pher, n. Etym: [L. historiographus, Gr. historiographe.]

Definition: An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SQUARE

(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”


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