English-Dutch translations for historical

• historisch
• geschiedkundig
  Mijnheer de Voorzitter, geschiedkundig gezien staat de Europese Unie nog in de kinderschoenen. Mr President, in a historical context the European Union is a baby.
  Voor dat doeleinde zijn er al geschiedkundige instellingen en instituten genoeg. There are already enough historical institutes and centres dealing with that.
  Het bevat geschiedkundige fouten, waaronder de plaatsing van het ontstaan van het christendom in de vierde eeuw van onze tijdrekening. It contains historical errors, such as dating the origin of Christianity in the fourth century of the present era.

Definition of historical

• Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions
• Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally
• Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history
• A historical romance

Synonyms

• historial

Examples

• July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day
• The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic
• The Royal Historical Society
• The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
• historical-political

Related words

• historically
• culturohistorical
• prehistorically
• ahistorical
• unhistorical
• unhistorically
• prehistorical
• historicalization
• ahistorically