"go down in history" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: goes down in history [present, singular, third-person], going down in history [participle, present], went down in history [past], gone down in history [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> down in history}} go down in history (third-person singular simple present goes down in history, present participle going down in history, simple past went down in history, past participle gone down in history)
  1. Be sufficiently noteworthy as to be remembered by future generations. Synonyms: make history Translations (Translations): passar a la història (Catalan), jäädä historiaan (Finnish), faire date (French), faire époque (French), entrer dans l’histoire (French), in die Geschichte eingehen (German), passare alla storia (Italian), przechodzić do historii [imperfective] (Polish), przejść do historii [perfective] (Polish), fazer história (Portuguese), entrar para a história (Portuguese), entrar pra história [colloquial] (Portuguese), войти́ в исто́рию (vojtí v istóriju) (Russian), hacer historia (Spanish), gå till historien (Swedish)
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