historia
Spanish, noun
historia is spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-A (8 letters) and appears 468 times per million words in written Spanish, the 175th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Historia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “history (the aggregate of past events)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of historiar. With an accent, historía is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. With an accent, historiá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of historiar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Conjunto de los acontecimientos pasados”.
What does historia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehistory (the aggregate of past events)
pasar a la historia
- 2
femininehistory (the branch of knowledge that studies the past)
el departamento de historia
- 3
femininehistory (a set of events involving an entity)
- 4
femininehistory (a record or narrative description of past events)
- 5
femininestory (a sequence of real or fictional events)
contar una historia
- 6
femininethe letter H in the Spanish spelling alphabet
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of historiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Conjunto de los acontecimientos pasados. 2. Por extensión, relato o narración que describe un subconjunto de sucesos pasados. 3. Obra escrita o pictórica que contiene relatos de acontecimientos pasados. 4. Disciplina que estudia la identificación y recapitulación de los acontecimientos pasados.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of historia
- historias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to historia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is historia in Spanish?
historia appears 468 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).