historic significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricandsignificance
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historic
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪk/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪk/
important or likely to be important ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofhistoricandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It has ahistoricsignificance, dating from legislation before the second world war.
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Three events of possiblehistoricsignificancehave already happened in 1986.
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This is undoubtedly an event of greathistoricsignificance.
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I do not think that it has anyhistoricsignificance.
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He took the view that the factors were evenly balanced but that thehistoricsignificanceof the site was an overriding consideration.
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Thehistoricsignificanceof this step for the citizens of those countries cannot be doubted.
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I must say very clearly that the most important thing is itshistoricsignificance.
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I believe that what we are doing today is a matter ofhistoricsignificance.
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That is successfully established, and it is a matter of enormously importanthistoricsignificance.
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We are aware of thehistoricsignificanceof this settlement.
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That important proposition hashistoricsignificance—not the number of cameras, nor the lighting, nor the fact that we have not done it before.
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I want to refer briefly to his courage and to the political andhistoricsignificanceof his maiden speech.
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This minor change is of some smallhistoricsignificance.
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Secondly, does he agree that its realhistoricsignificanceis to show that, through dialogue and acting in good faith, the pathway to peace has genuinely been cleared?
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Enlargement is an accomplishment ofhistoricsignificance.
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That is of very greathistoricsignificance.
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Therefore, only railway men can appreciate the deep emotions released in another railway man at the prospect of the abolition of that station, which is of suchhistoricsignificance.
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New towns have ahistoricsignificance.
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There is nothing really there now (but it is still marked on some maps, and may be of somehistoricsignificance).
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