Biography - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |baɪˈɑːɡrəfɪ|  American pronunciation of the word biography
Brit.  |baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ|  British pronunciation of the word biography

noun

- an account of the series of events making up a person's life (syn: life)

Extra examples

...an unauthorized biography of the actor gave him some serious headaches...

Boswell's biography of Dr. Johnson

The biography reviewed her accomplishments.

...authored a new biography of Thomas Jefferson...

...this prize-winning biography will be the benchmark against which all others will be judged in future years...

The biography includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions.

...the biography of a debauchee who underwent a late-life religious conversion and became a monk...

Her biography reads like a series of disconnected stories.

He wrote a powerful and evocative biography.

...this biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine contains an interesting excursus on the status of women in the Middle Ages...

The letters are included as an addendum to the biography.

...a magisterial biography of Thomas Jefferson that has never been superseded...

Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.

There is a new biography of the redoubtable Winston Churchill.

His chef-d'oeuvre was his biography of George Washington.

Word forms

noun
singular: biography
plural: biographies
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