bios

3.7

Short written notes about people for websites or programs

noun
/ˈbaɪoʊz/

Informal

: bio

Please check our campus site for full BIOS of our speakers.

It would take too long to list even the headline accomplishments of all these artists now, so I refer you to the printed program, which contains their full BIOS.

Examples

So the the chapters themselves are educational, but then you look at the BIOS of each of the authors.
Their stories, their BIOS, their histories, you know, all that kind of stuff.
In the words of Peter Bios, "the prolonged and painful severance from the mother constitutes the major task of this period" (66).

Academic text (1993)
Please check our campus site for full BIOS of our speakers.
The program included BIOS of each participant to give attendees more background information.
In the magazine, every article was accompanied by a short BIOS of the author.

Synonyms

profile

vsbios

Literature

243 3.4

A short description of a person, often in an article or online page

is mainly short notes for programs or printed publications

biography

vsbios

188 2.6

A written account of a person's life and important events

focuses on short summary notes rather than long detailed accounts

bio

vsbios

Informal

169 4.1

A short written account of a person's life and work

is used as concise notes for programs, websites, or publications

How Detailed

biography

188 2.6

bios

Informal

3.7

blurb

23 5.1

note

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

bio singular

bios plural

Morphology

bios = bio (semi-transparent) = bio + s

The word is transparently the plural of the clipped noun 'bio', but the clipping makes the form less fully compositional than an ordinary plural.

Etymology

Bios comes from the Greek root bio- meaning 'life', the same root in biography and biology. So bios are short life notes or small biographies that tell about a person's 'life'.