the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | how long something has existed |
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises |
a record or narrative description of past events | a late time of life |
the aggregate of past events | an era of history having some distinctive feature |
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | a prolonged period of time |