English-Finnish translations for historic

• historiallinen
  Tänään on todellakin historiallinen päivä. Today is indeed a historic day.
  Tämä olisi historiallinen virhe. It would be an historic mistake.
  Tämä on historiallinen läpimurto. This is an historic breakthrough.

Definition of historic

• Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history
• old-fashioned|Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity
• : of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (''See #Usage notes|usage notes''
• Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events
• A history, a non-fiction account of the past
• A historian

Examples

• A historic opportunity
• 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 historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect

Related words

• historical
• historically
• prehistoric
• culturohistorical
• prehistorically
• ahistorical
• unhistorical
• unhistoric
• unhistorically