Definition: Biography
Etymology
From New Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος or bíos (life) + γράφω or gráphō (write).
Noun
biography (countable and uncountable, plural biographies)
- A person's life story, especially one published.
- There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
- The art of writing this kind of story.
Derived terms
- antibiography
- autobiography
- biographee
- biographize
- biomythography
- heterobiography
- minibiography
- osteobiography
- photobiography
- psychobiography
Related terms
- biographer
- biographical
- biographism
- hagiography
- pathography
Verb
biography (third-person singular simple present biographies, present participle biographying, simple past and past participle biographied)
- (transitive) To write a biography of.
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