HISTORIOGRAPHY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The writing of history

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("historiography" is a kind of...):

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Meaning:

A body of historical literature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("historiography" is a kind of...):

literature (published writings in a particular style on a particular subject)

Derivation:

historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)