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Noun: historian  hi'sto-ree-un
  1. (history) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
    "a notable historian";
    - historiographer

Derived forms: historians

Type of: bookman, scholar, scholarly person

Encyclopedia: Historian

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