Noun: historian
| Singular | historian |
| Plural | historians |
Sample Sentences
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If this is what real people and societies are like, then it may be appropriate for historians to represent their subjects' lives in storylike form. [1992, Jonathan Gorman, Understanding history, page 65:]
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history does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it. [1975, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital. 1848-1875, published 1995, page 354:]
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The patient is unconscious when the syncopal event takes place and therefore is a poor historian. [2007, Joyce E. Dains, Linda Ciofu Baumann, Pamela Scheibel, Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care:]
Nouns inflected like historian
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English historian, historien, from Old French historien, from Latin historia (“story, history”), equivalent to histor(y) + -ian. More at history. See: Latin Nouns '
historia'.