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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
historic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a historic breakthrough
▪ The agreement was a historic breakthrough in political history.
a historic building (=an old building of historical interest)
▪ Most of the historic buildings are from the 18th century.
a historic city (=very old and with an interesting history)
▪ Budapest is a beautiful and historic city.
a historic day (=a day when an event that is historically important happens)
▪ This was a historic day for the space program.
a historic event (=very important in a country’s history)
▪ The signing of the peace treaty was a historic event.
a historic landmark
▪ Rome is crammed with historic landmarks such as the Colosseum.
a historic moment (=a moment that is important in history)
▪ The fall of the Berlin wall was a historic moment.
a historic occasion (=important as part of history)
▪ This is truly a historic occasion.
a historic site
▪ There are numerous historic sites to visit.
a historic/ancient town
▪ Visitors can go on a tour of this historic town.
historic present
historic proportions (=a size or importance that only rarely happens)
▪ We were trapped for three days by a blizzard of historic proportions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ In the last of our summer gardens series, Gargy Patel reports on one of the most historic gardens in the world.
▪ The idea of turning the most historic room in the nation into a bomb shelter struck me as in exceedingly bad taste.
■ NOUN
building
▪ Museums, historic buildings and historical sites and places of historic interest are key resources for history teaching.
▪ Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished.
▪ In particular, it brought the demolition of most historic buildings in conservation areas under control.
▪ Some of the most imaginative and interesting places to work and visit are converted historic buildings.
▪ Old Howgate Inn A schedule historic building of great character.
▪ Modern developments in the village has meant the loss of many historic buildings.
▪ This is a wonderful hotel created from two historic buildings.
▪ Britain's historic buildings - of all types - have a vitally important role to play in our daily lives.
city
▪ Most of them died in the onslaught which followed, their historic city completely destroyed.
▪ The beautiful historic city of Edinburgh is only forty minutes away by car, and Glasgow just a little further.
▪ With castles, mountains and historic cities such Eisenach and Gera, Thuringia is still very attached to its past.
▪ The region boasts many ancient towns of interest and historic cities whose architecture reveals the splendours of the past.
▪ This is unfair, for it is a historic city and once in a while something does happen.
▪ Downstream again and known as Lentia by the Romans is Linz, a picturesque and painstakingly restored historic city.
cost
▪ In historic cost accounting, capital is measured as the initial capital invested.
▪ Therefore land, which is not depreciated, will be shown at its historic cost in the balance sheet.
▪ Unlimited life goods are typically stored at historic cost in the balance sheet and there is no depreciation.
▪ In fact, this is the weakness of historic cost accruals accounting.
▪ Monetary assets and liabilities are shown at their historic cost.
▪ This is known as replacement cost accounting as opposed to historic cost accounting when the original cost is retained.
▪ The answers using historic cost, replacement cost and net realizable value basis are as follows.
▪ Answer guide: The cost associated with the depreciation of an asset is based on the historic cost of that asset.
day
▪ A lavish fete rings in the historic day.
▪ Scoundreldom has multiplied beyond our ability to contain it, a historic day for New York!
district
▪ Street selling has always centered in the downtown historic district, a maze of narrow streets and crumbling colonial buildings.
▪ It raised consciousness about historic preservation, and led to the formation of the numerous historic districts that today ring the downtown.
▪ In the historic district tourists were already returning.
▪ Sticks swinging, they descended on vendors selling illegally in the historic district, witnesses said.
▪ A multimedia presentation on the city's neighborhoods, many of which are historic districts, is planned for a small theater.
▪ Pier 70: Its small older buildings would make a historic district, Wong believes.
▪ All of the town of Lincoln is a historic district, which discourages new construction.
event
▪ Just as the verdicts were about to be announced there came another historic event for the country.
▪ But he said he has never forgotten the experience of being present at a historic event.
▪ It was taken was late 1986 and is regarded as an historic event.
▪ But Septembers have traditionally yielded historic events.
▪ Their cars still compete in historic events.
▪ Emily had, by age eighteen, witnessed stirring and historic events.
▪ All are tied to the enigma of death, and to the complexity of our feelings when faced with historic events.
▪ But then landmarks also signify the passing of time, a watershed or an historic event.
home
▪ The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art.
▪ Another idea is to get out and view the gardens and some historic homes.
house
▪ In the past 13 years, when 250 historic houses and their estates have been sold off, Althorp has flourished.
▪ It is not a lack of money that keeps parishioners from expanding the historic house of worship.
▪ If nothing from an historic house is ever to be sold, how is the roof to be repaired?
▪ A historic house is valued as a capital asset whereas in fact it is virtually a non-income producing liability.
▪ Dating back to medieval times, Britain's historic houses are one of our greatest treasures.
▪ Striking the balance between conservation and access becomes ever more complex, both in the countryside and in historic houses and gardens.
▪ Owners of historic houses are to be exempt from the revaluation for tax purposes included in measures covering commercial property.
interest
▪ Museums, historic buildings and historical sites and places of historic interest are key resources for history teaching.
▪ Yet there is much of scenic and historic interest here to delight the leisurely visitor.
▪ No empty rate is payable on a vacant building listed as being of special architectural or historic interest.
▪ The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest.
▪ More important is the emphasis on areas, as distinct from individual buildings, of architectural or historic interest.
landmark
▪ Nelson, historic landmarks from the early days of the fur-trader, the gold miner and the explorer.
▪ They organized quickly, and had the Tiradito Wishing Shrine declared a national historic landmark.
▪ It would neither be the subject of uninformed scandal, nor slated to become a national historic landmark in our city.
▪ Washington the home town and Washington the historic landmark are physically the same but logistically, legally and pragmatically separate entities.
low
▪ This year's figure of 81,000 tonnes was already a historic low.
▪ Because demand is so high, the number of listings is at a historic low, too.
▪ The number of redundancies recorded last year reached a historic low of 250,000.
▪ The official discount rate is at a historic low of 0. 50 percent.
moment
▪ He acknowledged that addressing our Conference was an historic moment.
▪ This historic moment with Pocahontas and Capt.
▪ Like all the big bosses of the regime, he would have it on film, this great historic moment.
▪ This is one of those historic moments for the circus.
▪ What a historic moment in my life, I thought.
monument
▪ In use as a hospital until 1965, in 1977 it was declared an historic monument and saved from demolition.
▪ Judges were blown up, policemen shot, historic monuments targeted.
▪ Free offer Visits to Ulster's historic monuments will be free next weekend.
▪ It was classified an historic monument the following year.
▪ Baku town center is filled with stalls, cafes, historic monuments.
▪ The countryside of Yorkshire is a wonderful landscape of dales and moors, with many historic monuments.
▪ In the 100-mile city, airports, shopping centres, cultural complexes and historic monuments all have equivalent status.
▪ The keep's remains will be preserved as a historic monument.
opportunity
▪ Once again the Democratic party may have thrown away a historic opportunity to retake the White House.
▪ These historic opportunities are fast disappearing for our community.
▪ The council says the redevelopment is an historic opportunity for the city, and that they're right to be optimistic.
▪ That is the great historic opportunity.
▪ And there is surely a limit to the time which this historic opportunity can endure.
place
▪ Within a 35-mile radius, you can visit numerous historic places, such as Broadlands, home of the Earl of Mountbatten.
▪ Now he wants to produce his own film using historic planes set in historic places like Oxford.
▪ During our visit we visited railway museums historic places, craft and ornamental places.
▪ Male speaker I think it would be a shame to destroy such a historic place.
preservation
▪ A Washington-based advisory group on historic preservation must first evaluate the proposal.
▪ It raised consciousness about historic preservation, and led to the formation of the numerous historic districts that today ring the downtown.
▪ In some areas, developers who build on public property are assessed special fees to help pay for historic preservation.
▪ A developer could use historic preservation credits to finance a project there, he said.
▪ In the 1970s, Tucson was a leader in historic preservation.
site
▪ Daily itineraries included visits to schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, concerts and historic sites.
▪ The design organization previously cosponsored annual home tours with the San Diego Historical Society, usually at historic sites and suburban mansions.
▪ Many historic sites and buildings can be cold even in summer, and warm clothing and appropriate footwear may be needed.
▪ Now, San Diego history advocates have created a combination tour of both historic sites and scenic vistas.
▪ Grant aid: Two historic sites in Whitby are to get grant aid from Scarborough Council.
▪ We believe this to be an important historic site with tremendous re-use opportunities.
▪ There are many historic sites to choose from, stretching from the Borders to Shetland.
▪ I went to every Great Plains state, dozens of museums, scores of historic sites, numerous cafes.
town
▪ Eighteenth-century maps of historic towns often show elaborate formal gardens behind the houses, but very few traces of these remain.
▪ There's an optional excursion around this historic town before returning to the boat for overnight berth.
▪ Conservation areas can be spread over large chunks of historic towns or just one street.
▪ Otherwise, they say, historic towns will be changed for ever.
▪ This is a historic town, its nucleus occupying an imposing and consequently strategic position on an eminence commanding the river Emme.
▪ London is relatively poorly served in this respect, as are historic towns subject to significant Conservation Area protection.
▪ Sestri Levante is an historic town of charm.
▪ Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas.
victory
▪ He was Man-of-the-match in the All Ireland club final, a central figure in Sarsfield's historic victory.
▪ Over the course of the Olympics, he ran eight races in seven days en route to his historic victories.
▪ Read in studio Cricket ... Oxford University have scored an historic victory against county opposition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
historic developments in Eastern Europe
▪ a historic building
▪ a historic voyage
▪ In his book, Churchill describes that historic first meeting with Roosevelt.
▪ the historic moment when Nelson Mandela was released from prison
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this presumptive privilege must be considered in light of our historic commitment to the rule of law.
▪ Emily had, by age eighteen, witnessed stirring and historic events.
▪ I feel stock returns will eventually gravitate to their historic norms of 10. 5 percent annually since 1925.
▪ In particular, it brought the demolition of most historic buildings in conservation areas under control.
▪ It must be because they are historic that they have been left standing.
▪ Other less historic factors have tightened the bond.
▪ Within days, the historic deal inexplicably fell apart.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
historic

historic \his*tor"ic\ (h[i^]s*t[o^]r"[i^]k), historical \his*tor"ic*al\ (h[i^]s*t[o^]r"[i^]*kal), a. [L. historicus, Gr. "istoriko`s: cf. F. historique. See History.] Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n.

There warriors frowning in historic brass.
--Pope.

2. having once lived, existed, or taken place in the real world; -- contrasted with legendary; as, the historical Jesus; doubt that a historical Camelot every existed; actual historical events.

3. Belonging to the past; as, historical (or historic) times; a historical character.

4. Within the period of time recorded in written documents; as, within historic times. Opposite of prehistoric.

Syn: diachronic.

5. (Linguistics) Same as diachronic. synchronic

Historical painting, that branch of painting which represents the events of history.

Historical sense, that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written.

The historic sense, the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
historic

1660s, probably a back-formation from historical, perhaps influenced by French historique. What is historic is noted or celebrated in history; what is historical deals with history.

Wiktionary
historic

a. 1 very important, very noteworthy: having importance or significance in history. 2 old-fashioned, untouched by modernity. 3 (label en now uncommon) (altname: historical): of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (''See #Usage notes''.) 4 (label en grammar) various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events. n. 1 (label en obsolete) A history, a non-fiction account of the past. 2 (label en obsolete) A historian.

WordNet
historic
  1. adj. belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character" [syn: historical]

  2. important in history; "the historic first voyage to outer space"

Usage examples of "historic".

Some people even called up and wanted to record the historic moment when they were aborted by Rush Limbaugh so they could play it for friends.

Arguments that may now be adduced to prove that the first eight Amendments were concealed within the historic phrasing of the Fourteenth Amendment were not unknown at the time of its adoption.

Since the house is technically part of the historic district, there are rules about maintenance and that sort of thing, and Aden took the opportunity to give her some trouble about it.

The only well authenticated case in which the ureter alone was divided is the historic injury of the Archbishop of Paris, who was wounded during the Revolution of 1848, by a ball entering the upper part of the lumbar region close to the spine.

The province of Quebec, an historic battleground where the French and English settle their differences with weapons and words over the centuries, may have seen more biker murders in the last two decades than all of the United States.

The place attracted me like a magnet and I wished that I were writing of it and not Centennial, which at this point seemed pretty ordinary to me, but as I drove south, it occurred to me that I must be following the old Skimmerhorn Trail, and when I came to the low bluffs that marked the delineation between the river bottom and the prairie and I was able to look down into Centennial and its paltry railroad, with cottonwoods outlining the south side of the Platte, I had a suspicion that perhaps it too had had its moments of historic significance.

Obviously, the three points symbolize, to him, the Triple Revolution document, the historic dating point of the beginning of our era, which Chib claims to hate so.

I rented classic films for a historic survey, discussed cinematography, bought an 8mm camera and film for it.

As the rapid rate of growth of copier revenues began to slow at the end of the 1960s, McColough knew that Xerox would need to expand its business into new areas to maintain its historic rate of growth.

This is so true, that when Cesare Beccaria opened the great historic cycle of the classic school of criminology, he was assaulted by the critics of his time with the same indictments which were brought against us a century later.

Drugs in all their manifestations of production, commercialization and consumption, denaturalizes us by injuring our ethical, religious and political life, our historic, economic, and republican values.

JUDAISM so largely supplied the circumstantial and doctrinal germs out of which dogmatic Christianity grew, that we cannot thoroughly understand the Christian belief in a final day of judgment, unless we first notice the historic and literary derivation of that belief from Judaism, and then trace its development in the new conditions through which it passed.

For example, if there was any historic basis for the myth of Herakles dragging Cerberus out of Hades, it was that this hero forcibly entered the Mysteries and dragged out to light the enactor of the part of the three headed dog.

We cannot leave this subject without briefly adverting to a great historic fact, indeed, the most massive and significant fact in all history, which, in its remoter bearings, not only strikes at the very heart of the evolutionistic philosophy, but at the same time wounds it mortally in all its parts.

But investigation of the subject showed me that while Captain John Smith would lend himself easily enough to the purely facetious treatment, there were historic problems worthy of a different handling, and that if the life of Smith was to be written, an effort should be made to state the truth, and to disentangle the career of the adventurer from the fables and misrepresentations that have clustered about it.