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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Word of the Day

29 March 2024

FAULTFINDING

(adjective) tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions; “a counselor tries not to be faultfinding”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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