Usually means: Spoken accounts of past events.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word oral history:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. oral history: Merriam-Webster
  2. oral history: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oral history: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oral history: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oral-history: Wordnik
  6. oral history: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. oral history: Wiktionary
  8. oral history: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. oral history: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. oral history: Dictionary.com
  11. Oral history: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. oral history: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oral history: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oral history: Genealogy Glossary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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

(Note: See oral_historian as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (oral history)

noun:  (historiography) The collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
noun:  Oral tradition.

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