"metahistorian" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "metahistorian (plural metahistorians)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Jonathan Walley, Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, Oxford University Press, page 42",
          "text": "But the metahistorian of cinema is not only concerned exclusively with such works, but may also produce them if it is necessary for the clarity and cohesiveness of the metahistory: […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "One who studies or researches metahistory."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "metahistory",
          "metahistory"
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  "word": "metahistorian"
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          "ref": "2020, Jonathan Walley, Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, Oxford University Press, page 42",
          "text": "But the metahistorian of cinema is not only concerned exclusively with such works, but may also produce them if it is necessary for the clarity and cohesiveness of the metahistory: […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who studies or researches metahistory."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "metahistory",
          "metahistory"
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  "word": "metahistorian"
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