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noun as in account of person's life
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- autobiography
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- confessions
- experiences
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- life history
- personal account
- personal anecdote
- personal narrative
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noun as in written account of one's own life
- personal history
- reminiscences
- self-portrayal
noun as in chronicle of events
- recapitulation
noun as in the story of one's life
- curriculum vitae
noun as in written matter, both fictional and nonfictional
- belles-lettres
- composition
- disquisition
- dissertation
- information
- literary works
- observation
- written work
noun as in record of experiences
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Barrett didn’t say anything on Tuesday to contradict our understanding of her ideological leanings based on her past rulings, past statements and biography.
Republicans, meanwhile, focused mostly on her biography — including her role as a working mother of seven and her Catholic faith — and her credentials, while offering few specifics about her record as a law professor and judge.
She delivered an inspiring biography at one point, reflecting on the sacrifice her mother made to emigrate to the United States.
As Walter Isaacson pointed out in his biography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin proposed the postal system as a vital network to bond together the 13 disparate colonies.
Serving that end, the book is not an in-depth biography as much as a summary of Galileo’s life and science, plus a thorough recounting of the events leading up to his famous trial.
The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.
For those unfamiliar with Michals, an annotated biography and useful essays are included.
Did you envision your Pryor biography as extending your previous investigation—aesthetically and historically?
But Stephen Kotkin's new biography reveals a learned despot who acted cunningly to take advantage of the times.
Watching novelists insult one another is one of the primary pleasures of his biography.
He also published two volumes of American Biography, a work which his death abridged.
Mme. de Chaulieu gave her husband the three children designated in the duc's biography.
The biography of great men always has been, and always will be read with interest and profit.
I like biography far better than fiction myself: fiction is too free.
The Bookman: "A more entertaining narrative whether in biography or fiction has not appeared in recent years."
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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to biography, such as: autobiography, diary, journal, life, life story, and memoir.
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Synonyms for biography baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi- bi·og·ra·phy, this thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word biography ., english synonyms and antonyms rate these synonyms: 2.4 / 20 votes.
History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records , which may be annals , or chronicles , or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals , archives , chronicles , biographies , and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history . History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.
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Synonyms: account , annals , archives , autobiography , chronicle , history , memoir , memorial , muniment , narration , narrative , recital , record , register , story
Princeton's WordNet Rate these synonyms: 2.0 / 26 votes
biography, life, life story, life history noun
an account of the series of events making up a person's life
Synonyms: sprightliness , life sentence , lifetime , spirit , life story , life history , life-time , life , lifespan , liveliness , living , career , aliveness , animation
Dictionary of English Synonymes Rate these synonyms: 4.5 / 2 votes
- biography noun
Synonyms: life , memoir , history of a person's life
Synonyms: biographical writings
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biographies , biographical , bio , sketch , biographer
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Matt Barreto :
The difference with Bush is he has access to the Mexican American experience, which is really different than the Cuban experience, rubio's biography is not unlike other immigrants, but Cubans had advantages that other immigrants don't. His experiences don't have the same resonance.
Quentin Tarantino :
Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy, i didn't just make a lot of that up. I heard Bruce Lee say things like that, to that effect. People are saying,' Well, Bruce Lee never said Bruce Lee could beat up Muhammad Ali.' Uh, yeah, Bruce Lee did. Not only did Bruce Lee say that, Bruce Lee wife, Linda Lee, said that. In the first biography I ever read was Linda Lee's' Bruce Lee : The Man Only I Knew,' and Linda Lee absolutely said it.
Yaron London :
What does she represent exactly? A woman who because of the circumstances of her life doesn't despise Jews but befriends them? She represents mainly herself and her own private biography.
Rebecca West :
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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I think the Taliban thought it was an important time to release his biography to give assurances that he is alive and present.
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noun. ['baɪˈɑːgrəfi'] an account of the series of events making up a person's life.
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1. Noun, singular or mass Provide a brief biography of the agency team that will work on the campaign if your pitch is successful.
Quotes about biography
1. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."[Mark Twain, a Biography ] - Mark Twain 2. If after I die, people want to write my biography , there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. - Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa 3. We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies. - Viktor E. Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul
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In a library, the word biography refers both to a kind of book and to a section where books of that kind are found. Each biography tells the story of a real person's life. A biography may be about someone who lived long ago, recently, or even someone who is still living, though in the last case it must necessarily be incomplete. The term autobiography refers to a biography written by the person it's about. Autobiographies are of course also necessarily incomplete.
Sometimes biographies are significantly shorter than a book—something anyone who's been asked to submit a biography for, say, a conference or a community newsletter will be glad to know. Often the word in these contexts is shortened to bio , a term that can be both a synonym of biography and a term for what is actually a biographical sketch: a brief description of a person's life. These kinds of biographies—bios—vary, but many times they are only a few sentences long. Looking at bios that have been used in the same context can be a useful guide in determining what to put in your own.
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Word History
Late Greek biographia , from Greek bi- + -graphia -graphy
1665, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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Definition of biography noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- Boswell’s biography of Johnson
- a biography by Antonia Fraser
- The book gives potted biographies of all the major painters.
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a written account of another person's life: the biography of Byron by Marchand.
an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc.
such writings collectively.
the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor.
Origin of biography
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How to use biography in a sentence
Barrett didn’t say anything on Tuesday to contradict our understanding of her ideological leanings based on her past rulings, past statements and biography .
Republicans, meanwhile, focused mostly on her biography — including her role as a working mother of seven and her Catholic faith — and her credentials, while offering few specifics about her record as a law professor and judge.
She delivered an inspiring biography at one point, reflecting on the sacrifice her mother made to emigrate to the United States.
As Walter Isaacson pointed out in his biography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin proposed the postal system as a vital network to bond together the 13 disparate colonies.
Serving that end, the book is not an in-depth biography as much as a summary of Galileo’s life and science, plus a thorough recounting of the events leading up to his famous trial.
The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.
For those unfamiliar with Michals, an annotated biography and useful essays are included.
Did you envision your Pryor biography as extending your previous investigation—aesthetically and historically?
But Stephen Kotkin's new biography reveals a learned despot who acted cunningly to take advantage of the times.
Watching novelists insult one another is one of the primary pleasures of his biography .
He also published two volumes of American biography , a work which his death abridged.
Mme. de Chaulieu gave her husband the three children designated in the duc's biography .
The biography of great men always has been, and always will be read with interest and profit.
I like biography far better than fiction myself: fiction is too free.
The Bookman: "A more entertaining narrative whether in biography or fiction has not appeared in recent years."
British Dictionary definitions for biography
/ ( baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ ) /
an account of a person's life by another
such accounts collectively
Derived forms of biography
- biographer , noun
- biographical ( ˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪk ə l ) or archaic biographic , adjective
- biographically , adverb
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for biography
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 .
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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- This biography offers a few glimpses of his life before he became famous .
- Her biography revealed that she was not as rich as everyone thought .
- The biography was a bit of a rush job .
- The biography is an attempt to uncover the inner man.
- The biography is woven from the many accounts which exist of things she did.
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Synonyms for BIOGRAPHY: memoir, autobiography, bio, history, life, hagiography, psychobiography, obituary, chronicle, profile
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biography: 1 n an account of the series of events making up a person's life Synonyms: life , life history , life story Examples: 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 Types: show 4 types... hide 4 types... autobiography a biography ...
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Synonyms for biography baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi-bi·og·ra·phy This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word biography. English Synonyms and Antonyms Rate these synonyms: 2.4 / 20 votes. biography. History is a systematic record of past events.
Quotes about biography . 1. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."[Mark Twain, a Biography] - Mark Twain 2. If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
biographies. definition 1: an account, usu. written, of the facts and circumstances of one person's life. similar words: life, memoir. definition 2: such written accounts collectively. definition 3: the field of biographical writing.
biography: [noun] a usually written history of a person's life.
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SYNONYMS OF «BIOGRAPHY». The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «biography» and belong to the same grammatical category. synonyms of biography. account · curriculum vitae · life · life history · life story · memoir · profile · record.