biography (noun)

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• biography — ► NOUN (pl. biographies) ▪ an account of a person s life written by someone else. DERIVATIVES biographer noun biographic adjective biographical adjective …   English terms dictionary

• biography — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ authorized, official ▪ unauthorized, unofficial ▪ brief, potted (BrE), short ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• biography — noun 1 (C) an account of a person s life written by someone else: Boswell s biography of Dr. Johnson 2 (U) the part of literature that consists of biographies compare autobiography biographical adjective biographically /kli/ adverb …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• biography — noun an unauthorized biography of Pat Nixon Syn: life story, life history, life, memoir; informal bio …   Thesaurus of popular words

• biography — noun (plural biographies) an account of someone s life written by someone else. Derivatives biographer noun Origin C17: from Fr. biographie or mod. L. biographia, from med. Gk, from bios life + graphia writing …   English new terms dictionary

• biography — noun (plural phies) Etymology: Late Greek biographia, from Greek bi + graphia graphy Date: 1683 1. a usually written history of a person s life 2. biographical writings as a whole 3. an …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• biography */ — UK [baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ] / US [baɪˈɑɡrəfɪ] noun Word forms biography : singular biography plural biographies a) [countable] a book that someone writes about someone else s life. A book that someone writes about their own life is called an autobiography.… …   English dictionary

• biography — 1. noun /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi,baɪˈɑːɡɹəfi/ A persons life story, especially one published. There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin. See Also: autobiography, biographer, biographical, hagiography, pathography 2 …   Wiktionary

• biography — /baɪˈɒgrəfi / (say buy ogruhfee) noun (plural biographies) 1. a written account of a person s life. 2. such writings collectively. 3. the study of the lives of individuals. 4. the art of writing a biography. {Greek biographia} …  

• biography — bi|og|ra|phy [ baı agrəfi ] noun * count a book that someone writes about someone else s life. A book that someone writes about their own life is called an autobiography. a. uncount biographies considered as a type of literature …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• biography — [baɪˈɒgrəfi] noun [C] a book that someone writes about someone else s life …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English