Biography
[baɪ'ɒgrəfɪ] or [baɪ'ɑɡrəfi]
Definition
(noun.) an account of the series of events making up a person's life.
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Definition
(n.) The written history of a person's life.
(n.) Biographical writings in general.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Life, memoir, history of a person's life.[2]. Biographical writings.
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Definition
n. a written account or history of the life of an individual: the art of writing such accounts.—n. Biog′rapher one who writes biography.—adjs. Biograph′ic -al.—adv. Biograph′ically.
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Examples
- An insistently expressed desire on the part of the public for a definitive biography of Edison was the reason for the following pages. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It would, of course, be drawn from biography, from the human aspect of history and daily observation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We are bound, you see, to give some account of Becky's biography, but of this part, the less, perhaps, that is said the better. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Any book that seemed to promise a chance of miserly biography, Mr Boffin purchased without a moment's delay and carried home. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not long since she published a biography of her deceased husband. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So much is left out of history and biography which would spoil the effect. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But there is one concluding reflection, sir, that will show the use of your life as a mere piece of biography. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Just give me down my index of biographies from the shelf. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- For once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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