historian

Word family  noun historian history prehistory adjective historic prehistoric historical adverb historically

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his·to·ri·an /hɪˈstɔːriən/ ●●○ W3 noun [countable]  SHBOsomeone who studies history, or the history of a particular thing 历史学家；史学工作者nart/literary/military etc historian

Examples from the Corpus

historian• A historian remembers the mid-'70s, as well as his struggles to complete a biography of President James Buchanan.• They used the work of anthropologists and historians which was available, and on the whole they used this work very judiciously.• Artist's intention is one of the criteria for the portrait posited by historians and theorists.• At present, the Guidelines need to be reviewed by historians.• Today, bound in their massive heavy green covers, they provide fascinating reading for historians.• They interest a wide range of scholars and lay users and deserve to be a standard reference for subject and local historians.• This is an excellent example of what the local historian will be coping with at parish level.• In this they were simply reflecting the typical disinterest of historians.art/literary/military etc historian• Deciding where is the beginning can be a trouble for an art historian.• The editor will continue to be anthropologist, art historian and classicist Francesco Pellizzi.• Do you feel that the language problem is a fundamental stumbling block for art historians?• Sir Ernst Gombrich, leading art historian certainly thinks so!• Tomás Llorens, art historian and Simon Marcháan, lecturer in Aesthetics.• Theologians evince, if anything, even less enthusiasm for the subject than art historians.• Additions and embellishments can be more difficult to detect, and here of course the cooperation of the art historian is essential.• She was extremely generous to aspiring young art historians.

his·to·ri·an nounLDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable  

the history, of history someone Corpus studies or a who

historian
his‧to‧ri‧an W3 /hɪˈstɔːriən/ noun [countable]someone who studies history, or the history of a particular thing
    art/literary/military etc historian

his·tor·ianBrE /hɪˈstɔːriən/ 🔊NAmE /hɪˈstɔːriən/ 🔊 nouna person who studies or writes about history; an expert in history 史学工作者；历史学家 HELP Some speakers do not pronounce the 'h' at the beginning of historian and use 'an' instead of 'a' before it. This now sounds old-fashioned. 有人说 historian 时不发 h 音，前面用 an 而不用 a，现在听起来过时了。