biography

bi·og·ra·phy

noun \bī-ˈä-grə-fē also bē-\

plural bi·og·ra·phies

Definition of BIOGRAPHY

1

: a usually written history of a person's life

2

: biographical writings as a whole

3

: an account of the life of something (as an animal, a coin, or a building)

Examples of BIOGRAPHY

1. a new biography of Abraham Lincoln
2. <an unauthorized biography of the actor gave him some serious headaches>

Origin of BIOGRAPHY

Late Greek biographia, from Greek bi- + -graphia -graphy

First Known Use: 1683

Related to BIOGRAPHY

Synonyms: bio, life, memoir

Related Words: autobiography; hagiography; psychobiography; pathography, tell-all; chronicle, history, past, story; obituary; character sketch, profile

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Other Literature Terms

apophasis, bathos, bildungsroman, bowdlerize, caesura, coda, doggerel, euphemism, poesy, prosody

Rhymes with BIOGRAPHY

autography, cacography, cartography, chorography, chronography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, ethnography, filmography, geography, holography, lithography, lymphography, mammography, mythography, nomography, orthography, phonography, photography, pictography, planography, pornography, reprography, sonography, stenography, thermography, tomography, topography, typography, venography, xerography, xylography