Usually means: Achieve something significant and memorable.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word make history:

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  1. make history: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make history: Merriam-Webster
  3. make history: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. make history: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. make history: Wiktionary
  6. make history: Dictionary.com
  7. make history: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make history: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Make History: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make history)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.

Similar:
make one's mark, leave one's mark, make a mark, immortalise, etch, historify, leave a mark, make a difference, make a name for oneself, eternize, more...

Opposite:
be forgotten, be insignificant, be unremarkable

Phrases:
Make Poverty History, to make history, more...

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Similar:
make one's mark, leave one's mark, make a mark, immortalise, etch, historify, leave a mark, make a difference, make a name for oneself, eternize, more...

Opposite:
be forgotten, be insignificant, be unremarkable

Phrases:
Make Poverty History, to make history, more...



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