LIFE HISTORY
Dictionary entry overview: What does life history mean?
• LIFE HISTORY (noun)
The noun LIFE HISTORY has 2 senses:
1. an account of the series of events making up a person's life
2. the general progression of your working or professional life
Familiarity information: LIFE HISTORY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LIFE HISTORY (noun)
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 ("life history" 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 "life history"):
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)
Meaning:
The general progression of your working or professional life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
career; life history
Context examples:
the general had had a distinguished career / he had a long career in the law
Hypernyms ("life history" is a kind of...):
advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression (the act of moving forward toward a goal)
