make history

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

make history (third-person singular simple present makes history, present participle making history, simple past and past participle made history)

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

   Neil Armstrong made history in 1969 when he was the first person to walk on the Moon.

Translations

do something that will be widely remembered for a long time

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 創造歷史 / 创造历史 (chuàngzào lìshǐ)

• Finnish: tehdä historiaa
• French: faire date (fr), faire époque (fr)
• Italian: passare alla storia, fare storia
• Polish: tworzyć historię impf
• Portuguese: fazer história
• Russian: твори́ть исто́рию impf (tvorítʹ istóriju), де́лать исто́рию impf (délatʹ istóriju), войти́ в исто́рию impf (vojtí v istóriju)
• Spanish: hacer historia
• Swedish: skapa historia (sv), gå till historien

See also

• go down in history