{
    "term": "historian",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who studies or writes about history; an expert in history",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "No serious historian today accepts this theory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Revisionist historians have questioned the accepted version of events."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is a writer as well as a distinguished modern historian."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The oldest tradition goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What will future historians make of the late 20th century?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a talk given by an eminent social historian"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the official historian of the Labour Party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the official historian of the United States Army"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["History", "Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["distinguished", "eminent", "great"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɪˈstɔːriən/",
                "audio": "hi/historian/historian__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɪˈstɔːriən/",
                "audio": "hi/historian/historian__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French historien, via Latin from Greek historia ‘finding out, narrative, history’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root shared by wit ‘have knowledge’."
}