Usually means: Relating to past events, study.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word historical:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. historical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. historical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. historical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. historical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. historical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Historical, historical: Wordnik
  7. historical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. historical: Wiktionary
  9. historical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. historical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. historical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. historical: Dictionary.com
  13. historical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Historical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Historical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. historical: Rhymezone
  17. historical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. historical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. historical: Free Dictionary
  20. historical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. historical: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. historical: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. historical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. historical: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HISTORICAL: Masonic Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. historical: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See historicalness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
adjective:  (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
adjective:  Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
adjective:  (literature, art) Set in the past.
adjective:  (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
adjective:  (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
adjective:  (obsolete, biology) Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.
adjective:  Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
adjective:  Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
adjective:  (uncommon) Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
adjective:  Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
noun:  A historical romance.

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