"historical society" meaning in English

See historical society in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: historical societies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} historical society (plural historical societies)
  1. An organization dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often related to a specific geographic area or time period.
    Sense id: en-historical_society-en-noun-nS6R5NTB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 87 13
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see historical, society.
    Sense id: en-historical_society-en-noun-i8gHdDgu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): History
Disambiguation of History: 0 0

Inflected forms

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