How do you pronounce historic?

The recorded pronunciation is /hɪˈstoɹɪk/.

historic

/hɪˈstoɹɪk/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: his-toric
IPA: /hɪˈstoɹɪk/

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Meaning

adj

Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

adj

Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.

adj

Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)

adj

Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.

noun

A history, a non-fiction account of the past.

Obsolete

noun

A historian.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"A historic opportunity"
"July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day."
"the historic moment when the Berlin Wall came down, together with the preservation of the city's historic district"
"The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic."
"Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15."
"Derrick Lewis […] told The Journal he felt that he was participating in something historic. “This is one of the events they’ll be talking about 100 years from now,” he said. He could be right, but not in the way he thinks."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Indo-European *wéydtōr Proto-Hellenic *wístōr Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στωρ (hĭ́stōr) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορέω (hĭstoréō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā)bor. Latin historia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin historicusder. English historic From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique. By surface analysis, history + -ic.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: historicus, ἱστορικός

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /hɪˈstoɹɪk/
British English: /hɪˈstɒɹɪk/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more historic (comparative) most historic (superlative) historick (alternative) hystoric (alternative) historique (alternative) historics (plural)

Derived Forms

ahistoric ahistoricism antihistoricism antihistoricist ethnohistoric historicism historicist historicistic historicity historicization historicize historicness

Phrases

historic county historic criticism historic district historic infinitive historic present historic present tense historic rhyme historic site

Frequently Paired Words

historicaster

Synonyms

historical important notable significant landmark momentous groundbreaking dated old-fangled outdated bygone foregone

Antonyms

unhistoric

Rhymes With

prehistoric caloric euphoric meteoric warrick doric couric boric dysphoric orrick borek perchloric