Pronunciation
How to pronounce “historian”
“historian” is pronounced /hɪstɔːɹiən/ — 3 syllables.
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historian
/hɪstɔːɹiən/
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4 syllables. Stress the 'ɔːɹ' part (say it longer and louder) and let the others relax — unstressed vowels often soften to a lazy /ə/.Meaning
a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
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