"make history" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make history.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes history [present, singular, third-person], making history [participle, present], made history [participle, past], made history [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> history}} make history (third-person singular simple present makes history, present participle making history, simple past and past participle made history)
  1. (idiomatic) To do something that will be widely remembered for a long time. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: go down in history Translations (do something that will be widely remembered for a long time): 創造歷史 (Chinese Mandarin), 创造历史 (chuàngzào lìshǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), tehdä historiaa (Finnish), faire date (French), faire époque (French), passare alla storia (Italian), fare storia (Italian), tworzyć historię [imperfective] (Polish), твори́ть исто́рию (tvorítʹ istóriju) [imperfective] (Russian), де́лать исто́рию (délatʹ istóriju) [imperfective] (Russian), войти́ в исто́рию (vojtí v istóriju) [imperfective] (Russian), hacer historia (Spanish), skapa historia (Swedish), gå till historien (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "do something that will be widely remembered for a long time",
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      "sense": "do something that will be widely remembered for a long time",
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      "sense": "do something that will be widely remembered for a long time",
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      "sense": "do something that will be widely remembered for a long time",
      "word": "hacer historia"
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      "sense": "do something that will be widely remembered for a long time",
      "word": "skapa historia"
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