Historic Meaning

/hɪˈstɒɹɪk/
B1

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adjVery important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

adjOld-fashioned, untouched by modernity.

I was extremely disappointed to see our national soccer team suffer a historic loss.
The Norwegian diplomat mediated the secret negotiations that produced the historic document.
The biologist is proud of his historic discovery.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The signing of the treaty was a ____ event that changed the country.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The signing of the peace treaty was a ____ event that changed the future of the region.

From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique. By surface analysis, history + -ic.

"Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15." — 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
"An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio." — 1594, John Dickenson, Arisbas, Euphues amidst his slumbers; or, Cupids iourney to hell:
"Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus." — 1566, William Painter, chapter XI, in The Palace of Pleasure Beautified, volume I:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The signing of the treaty was a ____ event that changed the country.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The signing of the peace treaty was a ____ event that changed the future of the region.

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