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单词 biographer
释义

Definition of biographer in English:

biographer

noun bʌɪˈɒɡrəfəbaɪˈɑɡrəfər
  • A person who writes an account of someone's life.

    an important biographer of contemporary artists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • According to the biographer, he was the pupil of a glass painter.
    • He had an exceptionally retentive visual memory, and his biographer attested to frequent instances of recollections decades old.
    • I was not sure whether the problem lay with the subject or with the biographer.
    • The son of an engraver, he is said by his 17th-century biographer to have worked in Germany.
    • The story is told by Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Condivi and is therefore presumably true in essentials.
    • His biographers have reported how his farmer father used to beat him regularly with a leather strap.
    • The author is a respected political biographer who interviewed many of the former prime minister's cabinet.
    • No matter how many biographers elucidate his character, he remains a mystery at the heart of the American experience.
    • To his biographer, he reported having paid a visit there in February or March 1944.
    • To read this paraphrase in context we really need the help of a good literary biographer and social historian.

Rhymes

autobiographer, bibliographer, cartographer, choreographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, geographer, Hagiographa, hagiographer, iconographer, lexicographer, lithographer, oceanographer, palaeographer (US paleographer), photographer, pornographer, radiographer, stenographer, topographer, typographer
 
 

Definition of biographer in US English:

biographer

nounbaɪˈɑɡrəfərbīˈäɡrəfər
  • A person who writes an account of someone's life.

    an important biographer of contemporary artists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • According to the biographer, he was the pupil of a glass painter.
    • To read this paraphrase in context we really need the help of a good literary biographer and social historian.
    • His biographers have reported how his farmer father used to beat him regularly with a leather strap.
    • No matter how many biographers elucidate his character, he remains a mystery at the heart of the American experience.
    • The story is told by Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Condivi and is therefore presumably true in essentials.
    • The author is a respected political biographer who interviewed many of the former prime minister's cabinet.
    • I was not sure whether the problem lay with the subject or with the biographer.
    • The son of an engraver, he is said by his 17th-century biographer to have worked in Germany.
    • To his biographer, he reported having paid a visit there in February or March 1944.
    • He had an exceptionally retentive visual memory, and his biographer attested to frequent instances of recollections decades old.
 
 
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