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biography

(baɪɒgrəfi)
Word forms: plural biographies
1. countable noun [oft with poss]
A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
2. uncountable noun
Biography is the branch of literature which deals with accounts of people's lives.
...a volume of biography and criticism.
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biography in British English

(baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -phies
1. 
an account of a person's life by another
2. 
such accounts collectively
Derived forms
biographer (biˈographer)
noun
biographical (ˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪkəl) or archaic biographic (ˌbioˈgraphic)
adjective
biographically (ˌbioˈgraphically)
adverb

biography in American English

(baɪˈɑgrəfi; also biˈɑgrəfi)
noun
1. 
the histories of individual lives, considered as a branch of literature
2. Word forms: plural biˈographies
an account of a person's life, described by another; life story
Word origin
Gr biographia: see bio- & -graphy

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Examples of 'biography' in a sentence
biography

How long did it take to research and write your biography of Ruth?
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
About 70,000 copies of the biography were published but it was soon suppressed by the German government.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He wrote widely on subjects from biography and literature to management studies and the history of science.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He spent the rest of his life writing biographies.
Kishlansky, Mark A. (editor) Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginningto 1715 (1995)
But the genre of biography is looking somewhat exhausted.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
She knew that a supreme method of doing this was through the biographies of real people.
Davey, Ray Rev. & Cole, John A Channel of Peace (1993)
It was an item that had failed to appear in the official biography published four years earlier.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
They are as well worth reading as the biographical works under review and much better history than the previous biographies published.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
It is a great new form of literature: biography of a few months in one country.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
No doubt the trustees and senior executives are worthy people - their biographies suggest they are.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
So it is with biography and particularly royal biography, a genre that does not suffer from publishing neglect.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Loaded with anecdotes from their crazy early days, this biography features eyewitness accounts telling the story of the band.
The Sun (2010)
He said he would, but there were three more volumes of his biography and accompanying document collections to complete first.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is clearly no easy matter to write a biography of a Cold War spy.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
It began in 1986, the year that his biography was published.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
These biographies are inevitably peopled by classy actors, but too often they are achingly dull, conventional cinema.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But I managed to correct and amplify an account of his biography and works sufficiently to provide a decent introduction to that edition.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
But there is also a kind of melancholy that sweeps over me when I read the biographies of persons who did not finish the race.
Christianity Today (2000)
I think it's like the whole history of Italian art in the biography of one person.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)

Quotations

Biography is all about cutting people down to size. Getting an unruly quart into a pint potAlan Bennett
Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unifiedJosé Ortega y GassetThe Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theoryBenjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming
Discretion is not the better part of biographyLytton Strachey
The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about ChapsEdmund Clerihew BentleyBiography for Beginners

In other languages
biography

British English: biography /baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ/ NOUN
A biography of a person is an account of their life, written by someone else.
...recent biographies of Stalin.
  • American English: biography
  • Arabic: سِيرَة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: biografia
  • Chinese: 传记
  • Croatian: biografija
  • Czech: životopis
  • Danish: biografi
  • Dutch: biografie
  • European Spanish: biografía
  • Finnish: elämäkerta
  • French: biographie
  • German: Biografie
  • Greek: βιογραφία
  • Italian: biografia
  • Japanese: 伝記
  • Korean: 전기
  • Norwegian: biografi
  • Polish: biografia
  • European Portuguese: biografia
  • Romanian: biografie
  • Russian: биография
  • Latin American Spanish: biografía
  • Swedish: biografi
  • Thai: อัตชีวประวัติ
  • Turkish: yaşam öyküsü
  • Ukrainian: біографія
  • Vietnamese: tiểu sử

Chinese translation of 'biography'

biography

(baɪˈɔɡrəfɪ)

n (c)

  1. 传(傳)记(記) (zhuànjì) (部, bù)
    a biography of Dylan Thomas 迪兰(蘭)•托(託)马(馬)斯传(傳) (Dílán Tuōmǎsī zhuàn)
(noun) 
Definition
an account of a person's life by another person
an unauthorised biography
Synonyms
life story
life
It was his aim to write a life of John Paul Jones.
record
Keep a record of all the payments.
account
I gave a detailed account of what had happened that night.
profile
The newspaper published comparative profiles of the candidates.
memoir
He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.
CV
life history
curriculum vitae

Quotations

Biography is all about cutting people down to size. Getting an unruly quart into a pint pot [Alan Bennett]Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified [José Ortega y Gasset – The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays]Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory [Benjamin Disraeli – Contarini Fleming]Discretion is not the better part of biography [Lytton Strachey]The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps [Edmund Clerihew Bentley – Biography for Beginners]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of account
Definition
a report or description
I gave a detailed account of what had happened that night.
Synonyms
description,
report,
record,
story,
history,
detail,
statement,
relation,
version,
tale,
explanation,
narrative,
chronicle,
portrayal,
recital,
depiction,
narration
in the sense of life
Definition
a biography
It was his aim to write a life of John Paul Jones.
Synonyms
biography,
story,
history,
career,
profile,
confessions,
autobiography,
memoirs,
life story
in the sense of memoir
Definition
a biography or historical account based on personal knowledge
He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.
Synonyms
account,
life,
record,
register,
journal,
essay,
biography,
narrative,
monograph

Synonyms of 'biography'

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