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|part of speech:
||one who writes about or is an expert on history.
The historian wrote a whole book on a famous Civil War battle.
The word historian
contains the following part:
-an, -ian, -ean
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means in adjectives: from (a place) or pertaining to or following (a figure or school of thought); in nouns: person or thing from (a place) or associated with (an activity or school of thought).
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The suffix group -an
attaches to common nouns and proper nouns to form adjectives or nouns.