history department
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈhɪstəri dɪˈpɑːrtmənt/
:
departamento de historia
- The history department at our university offers a wide range of courses on ancient civilizations.
- the history department offers
- work in a history department
- art history department
Examples
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But English departments still teach literature, and history departments teach history, and anthropologists still argue over the meaning of culture.
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So long as Gene was in the history department at Rochester, he had students and an institutional base for his continued productivity.
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This is our history department.
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Yes, I was in the history department at Yale for two years.
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Three of these classes were housed in the education department; the other class was in the history department.
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Historians of medicine most commonly teach in universities, either in the history department or the medical school.
Blog text (34) -
One northeastern history department still offers a course with the title "The History of the Future."
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We have a student who's applying for graduate work in our history department.
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The chair's sense was that I had high expectations of McMaster's history department.
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A few days before he penned these words, Burrows had been named the history department's representative on Johnson's promotion subcommittee.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
A part of a university that teaches and studies history
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'history' (the scholarly field of past events) with 'department' (an academic division), yielding an academic division responsible for history. This noun-noun compositional pattern (X department) is common in English and across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
History department comes from the simple idea of grouping school subjects. A department is a 'part of a school' and history is the subject about the past, so the phrase means the part of a college or university that teaches and does research in history.