biography








noun, plural bi·og·ra·phies.

  1. a written account of another person’s life: the biography of Byron by Marchand.
  2. an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc.
  3. such writings collectively.
  4. the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor.

noun plural -phies

  1. an account of a person’s life by another
  2. such accounts collectively
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.

The story of someone’s life. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, and Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg, are two noted biographies. The story of the writer’s own life is an autobiography.

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