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HISTORIOGRAPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does historiography mean?
• HISTORIOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun HISTORIOGRAPHY has 2 senses:
1. a body of historical literature
2. the writing of history
Familiarity information: HISTORIOGRAPHY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A body of historical literature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("historiography" is a kind of...):
literature (published writings in a particular style on a particular subject)
Derivation:
historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The writing of history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("historiography" is a kind of...):
authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)
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