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What does historical mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word historical? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
    1. (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
  2. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
    1. (literature, art) Set in the past.
    2. (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
    3. (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
    4. (biology) Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.
  3. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
    1. Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
    2. (uncommon) Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
  4. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
Noun
  1. A historical romance.
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