"oral history" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: oral histories [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} oral history (countable and uncountable, plural oral histories)
  1. (historiography) The collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Historiography Translations (collection and study of orally transferred historical information): 口述歷史 (Chinese Mandarin), 口述历史 (kǒushù lìshǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 口述史 (kǒushùshǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), mondelinge geschiedenis [feminine] (Dutch), parola historio (Esperanto), suullinen historia (Finnish), histoire orale [feminine] (French), オーラル・ヒストリー (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-oral_history-en-noun-DYhdHWGp Topics: historiography, history, human-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'collection and study of orally transferred historical information': 80 20
  2. Oral tradition. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-oral_history-en-noun-1x6umAXJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81

Inflected forms

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