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biography

UK/baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/US/baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,912 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: biographies

A biography is the written life story of a real person. An authorised biography.

An authorised one is written with the family's help and usually with their veto. A biography written soon after a death has the witnesses and none of the perspective.

Plutarch, M. Dacier, Jacob Tonson, et al. · Public domain

Definitions of biography

  1. 1nounbiographyThe written life story of a real person.C1

    “The biography ran to nine hundred pages and stopped in 1953.”

biography is a book.

Where it comes from

  1. New Latin

    biographia

  2. English, today

    biography

Borrowed from New Latin biographia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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biography in the wild

  • A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description or account of a person's life.

    Biography

  • Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography.

    Biography

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.