biography
pronunciation
How to pronounce biography in British English:
UK [baɪˈɒɡrəfi]
How to pronounce biography in American English:
US [baɪˈɑːɡrəfi]
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- Noun:
- an account of the series of events making up a person's life
Word Origin
- biography (n.)
- 1680s, probably from Latin biographia, from Late Greek biographia "description of life," from Greek bio- "life" (see bio-) + graphia "record, account" (see -graphy). Biographia was not in classical Greek (bios alone was the word for it), though it is attested in later Greek from c.500.
Example
- 1. The jobs book will be his fourth major biography .
- 2. Certain aspects of this biography work less well .
- 3. His is the fourth biography written about donovan .
- 4. This biography provides a more nuanced view .
- 5. Kathryn harrison is writing a biography of joan of arc .