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BIOGRAPHY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does biography mean?

• BIOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun BIOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. an account of the series of events making up a person's life

Familiarity information: BIOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BIOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An account of the series of events making up a person's life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

biography; life history; life story; life

Hypernyms ("biography" is a kind of...):

account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biography"):

autobiography (a biography of yourself)

hagiography (a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint))

profile (biographical sketch)

Instance hyponyms:

Parallel Lives (a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays)

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BIOGRAPHY: related words searches

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