"alternative history" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alternative histories",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "alternative history (usually uncountable, plural alternative histories)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Alternate history",
          "orig": "en:Alternate history",
          "parents": [
            "History",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "All topics",
            "Fiction",
            "Genres",
            "Fundamental",
            "Artistic works",
            "Entertainment",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "History",
          "orig": "en:History",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 24, Konstantin Sheiko, Stephen Brown, History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia:",
          "text": "One of the many criticisms that can be directed at alternative historians is their failure to think historically. For alternative history, the past is not a ‘foreign country’, but rather a country that closely resembles the Russian Empire of recent times.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Counterfactual history, a form of scientific speculation used by historians."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "speculative fiction"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-alternative_history-en-noun-byMPHUd4",
      "links": [
        [
          "Counterfactual",
          "counterfactual"
        ],
        [
          "speculation",
          "speculation"
        ],
        [
          "historian",
          "historian"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "alternative timeline"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "alternative universe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "counterfactual"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "darkest timeline"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "worst timeline"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "gaslight romance"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "parallel universe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "point of divergence"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "retrofuture"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "steampunk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "what if"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "what-if"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "word": "alternate history"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "english": "both senses",
          "word": "allohistory"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fiction",
          "orig": "en:Fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history)."
      ],
      "id": "en-alternative_history-en-noun-jICXaKS3",
      "links": [
        [
          "fiction",
          "fiction"
        ],
        [
          "genre",
          "genre"
        ],
        [
          "ahistorical",
          "ahistorical"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "divergence",
          "divergence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fiction) A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fiction",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔːltɜːnətɪv ˌhɪstɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒltənət ˌhɪstɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌhɪstəɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌhɪst(ə)ɹɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔltɚnətɪv ˌhɪstɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌhɪstəɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑl.tɚ.nətɪv-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alternative history"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Alternate history",
    "en:History"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alternative histories",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "alternative history (usually uncountable, plural alternative histories)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "speculative fiction"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "alternative timeline"
    },
    {
      "word": "alternative universe"
    },
    {
      "word": "counterfactual"
    },
    {
      "word": "darkest timeline"
    },
    {
      "word": "worst timeline"
    },
    {
      "word": "gaslight romance"
    },
    {
      "word": "parallel universe"
    },
    {
      "word": "point of divergence"
    },
    {
      "word": "retrofuture"
    },
    {
      "word": "steampunk"
    },
    {
      "word": "what if"
    },
    {
      "word": "what-if"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 24, Konstantin Sheiko, Stephen Brown, History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia:",
          "text": "One of the many criticisms that can be directed at alternative historians is their failure to think historically. For alternative history, the past is not a ‘foreign country’, but rather a country that closely resembles the Russian Empire of recent times.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Counterfactual history, a form of scientific speculation used by historians."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Counterfactual",
          "counterfactual"
        ],
        [
          "speculation",
          "speculation"
        ],
        [
          "historian",
          "historian"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Fiction"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fiction",
          "fiction"
        ],
        [
          "genre",
          "genre"
        ],
        [
          "ahistorical",
          "ahistorical"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "divergence",
          "divergence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fiction) A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fiction",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔːltɜːnətɪv ˌhɪstɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒltənət ˌhɪstɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌhɪstəɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌhɪst(ə)ɹɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔltɚnətɪv ˌhɪstɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ˌhɪstəɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑl.tɚ.nətɪv-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "alternate history"
    },
    {
      "english": "both senses",
      "word": "allohistory"
    }
  ],
  "word": "alternative history"
}