biographer
pronunciation
How to pronounce biographer in British English:
UK [baɪˈɒɡrəfə(r)]
How to pronounce biographer in American English:
US [baɪˈɑːɡrəfər]
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- Noun:
- someone who writes an account of a person's life
Word Origin
- biographer (n.)
- 1715; see biography + -er (1). Earlier was biographist (1660s). Of every great and eminent character, part breaks forth into public view, and part lies hid in domestic privacy. Those qualities which have been exerted in any known and lasting performances may, at any distance of time, be traced and estimated; but silent excellencies are soon forgotten; and those minute peculiarities which discriminate every man from all others, if the are not recorded by those whom personal knowledge enabled to observe them, are irrecoverably lost. [Johnson, "Life of Sir Thomas Browne," 1756]
Example
- 1. He became offit 's mentor ; offit later became hilleman 's biographer .
- 2. This is an irony that keynes would have appreciated , according to his biographer , robert skidelsky .
- 3. Conrad black is chairman emeritus ofthe national interestas well as a columnist and biographer of franklin d. roosevelt and richard nixon .
- 4. The great man once walked 15 miles to dunfermline wrapped only in his thoughts and his dressing gown , according to an early biographer .
- 5. Hence lincoln 's famous " team of rivals , " says biographer doris kearns goodwin . " How can you do this ? "