biography
noun /baɪˈɒɡrəfi/
/baɪˈɑːɡrəfi/
[countable, uncountable] (plural biographies)
- the story of a person’s life written by somebody else; this type of writing
- Boswell’s biography of Johnson
- a biography by Antonia Fraser
- The book gives potted biographies of all the major painters.
WordfinderTopics Literature and writingc1- biography
- blockbuster
- book
- character
- editor
- narrator
- novel
- plot
- publish
- title
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- authorized
- official
- unauthorized
- …
- work on
- write
- produce
- …
- biography by
- biography of
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.