hist
- noun
- /hɪst/
- Informal
- - Hist now, Beth.
Examples
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I wrote in the style of he said, she said rather than he, she graded growl hist etcetera.
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We want to go to the zoo, Space Center, Nat. Hist. Museum, etc.
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- Also on this day in hist...
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Especially with all the hist-- with what, Autumn?
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The upcoming workshop will provide a forum to discuss and review protocols and available data from an ongoing study of in vitro alternatives to the HIST test.
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We spent 2 classes on Job (it's a 4-year weekly "intro" class), and in the fine lit-hist criticism tradition, it was explained to us as a folk tale.
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My professor assigned a difficult reading from the American hist this week.
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Many universities offer a degree in hist for students who want to study the past.
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In class, we discussed the significance of events in world hist.
Synonyms
The study of past events about people and societies
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hist is an informal short form of the everyday word history, which means 'the study of the past'. So if someone says they have a hist exam, they mean a test in history.