Pertaining to world history; globally significant.

(Marxism) A methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, looking for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life.

(grammar) The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written. / (grammar) The present tense as used when writing a fictional narrative.

plural of dictionary on historical principles

(lexicography) A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.

plural of historic present

plural of historic rhyme

Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by historical linguists to reconstruct the phonology of old languages.

The past historic tense.

(grammar) The historical present tense.