a person who studies or writes about history; an expert in history
HELPNOTE 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.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, historian is tagged as noun.
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