What is the meaning of historical?

adjective

  • Of or relating to the study of history.
    • usage: "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective"
  • Having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary.
    • usage: "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events"
  • Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past.
    • usage: "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character"
  • Used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time.
    • usage: "diachronic linguistics"
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