past vs history

history vs past

past and history both are nouns.

past is an adjective but history is not an adjective.

past is an adverb but history is not an adverb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
past	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
history	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, history is a hyponym of past; that is, history is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than past:

past: the time that has elapsed
history: the aggregate of past events

Other hyponyms of past include yore, bygone, water under the bridge, old, time immemorial, time out of mind, auld langsyne, good old days, lang syne, langsyne, old times, yesterday.

past (noun)	history (noun)
a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past	the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
the time that has elapsed	all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)	a record or narrative description of past events
	the aggregate of past events
	the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

past (adjective)	history (adjective)
earlier than the present time; no longer current
of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office

past (adverb)	history (adverb)
so as to pass a given point

Difference between past and history

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