GO DOWN IN HISTORY meaning: Remembered significantly through historical context - OneLook

Usually means: Remembered significantly through historical context.

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Definitions from Wiktionary (go down in history)

▸ verb: Be sufficiently noteworthy as to be remembered by future generations.

Similar:

stand out, hit the big time, illustre, outname, toot, distinguish, kill it, monumentalize, think one hung the moon, have a moment, more...

Opposite:

be forgotten, fade into obscurity, be lost to history

Phrases:

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, to go down in history, more...

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Similar:

stand out, hit the big time, illustre, outname, toot, distinguish, kill it, monumentalize, think one hung the moon, have a moment, more...

Opposite:

be forgotten, fade into obscurity, be lost to history

Phrases:

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, to go down in history, more...

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