autobiographyn.

Brit.

/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)bʌɪˈɒɡrəfi/, U.S.

/ˌɔdəˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/,

/ˌɔdoʊˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/,

/ˌɑdəˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/,

/ˌɑdoʊˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: auto- comb. form¹, biography n.

Etymology: < auto- comb. form¹ + biography n., perhaps after German Autobiographie (1756 in Greek characters as αὐτοβιογραϕία, subsequently from 1793 or earlier). Compare French autobiographie (1820), which may show a borrowing < German rather than < English (see the detailed discussion in Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch XXV. 1163/2).

An account of a person's life given by himself or herself, esp. one published in book form. Also: the process of writing such an account; these considered as a literary genre. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs

story1533

autography1661

memoirs1676

idiographya1734

self-biography1796

autobiography1797

reminiscence1797

autobiog1829

autobio1856

auto1881

curriculum vitae1902

biodata1947

vita1949

c.v.1971

1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 2nd Ser. 24 375 The next dissertation concerns Diaries, and Self-biography. We are doubtful whether the latter word be legitimate: it is not very usual in English to employ hybrid words partly Saxon and partly Greek: yet autobiography would have seemed pedantic.

1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 1 283 This very amusing and unique specimen of autobiography.

1859 B. Powell Order of Nature 252 Geology (as Sir C. Lyell has so happily expressed it) is ‘the autobiography of the earth’.

1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray i. 17 We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

a1929 G. Scott tr. D. J. van Tuyll van Serooskerken Let. in F. A. Pottle Boswell in Holland (1952) 344 The autobiography in your letter..has pleased me a good deal.

1939 D. Thomas Let. 11 May (1987) 375 Dent's will be pleased to hear that my Welsh book, a sort of provincial autobiography, is coming on well.

1984 R. Dahl Boy 9 An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

2006 Independent 7 Apr. 46/3 The Cockney beauty's autobiography..has become a surprise hit, debuting at number four in the best-seller lists.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	autobiography
释义	autobiographyn. Brit. /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)bʌɪˈɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˌɔdəˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/, /ˌɔdoʊˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/, /ˌɑdəˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/, /ˌɑdoʊˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: auto- comb. form¹, biography n. Etymology: < auto- comb. form¹ + biography n., perhaps after German Autobiographie (1756 in Greek characters as αὐτοβιογραϕία, subsequently from 1793 or earlier). Compare French autobiographie (1820), which may show a borrowing < German rather than < English (see the detailed discussion in Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch XXV. 1163/2). An account of a person's life given by himself or herself, esp. one published in book form. Also: the process of writing such an account; these considered as a literary genre. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs story1533 autography1661 memoirs1676 idiographya1734 self-biography1796 autobiography1797 reminiscence1797 autobiog1829 autobio1856 auto1881 curriculum vitae1902 biodata1947 vita1949 c.v.1971 1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 2nd Ser. 24 375 The next dissertation concerns Diaries, and Self-biography. We are doubtful whether the latter word be legitimate: it is not very usual in English to employ hybrid words partly Saxon and partly Greek: yet autobiography would have seemed pedantic. 1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 1 283 This very amusing and unique specimen of autobiography. 1859 B. Powell Order of Nature 252 Geology (as Sir C. Lyell has so happily expressed it) is ‘the autobiography of the earth’. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray i. 17 We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. a1929 G. Scott tr. D. J. van Tuyll van Serooskerken Let. in F. A. Pottle Boswell in Holland (1952) 344 The autobiography in your letter..has pleased me a good deal. 1939 D. Thomas Let. 11 May (1987) 375 Dent's will be pleased to hear that my Welsh book, a sort of provincial autobiography, is coming on well. 1984 R. Dahl Boy 9 An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. 2006 Independent 7 Apr. 46/3 The Cockney beauty's autobiography..has become a surprise hit, debuting at number four in the best-seller lists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1797
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