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Definition historic in American English

historic adjective

adjective
/hɪˈstɔrɪk/
1

a historic event or time will be recorded in history because it is very important

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2

used to refer to crimes or allegations of crimes that happened a few or several years ago

Example

By far the greatest miscarriage is that 90% of victims of child abuse, historic or otherwise, will never see their abuser convicted.

Definition historic in American English