biography
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2.6
- noun
- /baɪˈɑːɡrəfi/
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biografía
- Right now, Bush is reading Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life, a biography of the first president.
- an unauthorized biography
- write a biography
- a heroic biography
And so I read every biography I could find about Hugh Glass.
- And so I read every biography I could find about Hugh Glass.
- And they try to reconstruct a biography of him here.
- And one of my favorite biographies is Mahatma Gandhi's.
- Well, you know, like most biographies, it's told chronologically.
- I don't, I don't know of a good biography on her.
- One group read and reread and reread those biographies over and over.
- And I think that repeats itself in a bunch of biographies that I've read.
- There's books and biographies written about these people.
- Their full biographies are posted on the session description.
- I wish someone would someday write my biography.
- I've been really enjoying this Duke Hanamoko biography.
Examples
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In other news, in other news, the Steve Jobs biography came out on Monday.
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She promised to write a biography that would include his childhood, achievements, and struggles.
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It's the greatest political biography set that I know about.
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And he wrote a biography, which is really good.
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And so I read every biography I could find about Hugh Glass.
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A biography of his life has been commissioned.
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And we're in the midst right now of a John Brown biography revival.
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So I've just read his biography written by his best friend.
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Last month he was reading the Kissinger biography.
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Yeah, I generally read histories and biographies.
Synonyms
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5.6
A written story about a person's events and experiences
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1.0
An account of past events about a person or place
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3.9
A story that describes connected events
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4.1
A short written account of a person's life and work
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2.1
An account of the events and experiences of a person's life
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4.0
A record of events and experiences a person or animal goes through
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7.3
A short written summary of a person's education, work, and achievements
A life story that uses mostly pictures and short captions
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
biography = bio + graphy
The meaning is directly built from the combining forms bio- ('life') and graphy ('writing'), so the sense of a written account of a life is readily inferable.
Etymology
Biography comes from Greek parts bio- meaning 'life' and -graphy meaning 'writing'. So a biography is 'writing about life', which is why it means a written account of a person's life.