biography
A person's life story, especially one published.
Example
“There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.”
Other meanings
The art of writing this kind of story.
“She is best known for biography and history, but she is also a novelist.”
Synonyms
- life
- life story
- life history
Related words
- antibiography
- biographee
- biographette
- biographize
- biomythography
- blogography
- minibiography
- osteobiography
- photobiography
- autobiography
- heterobiography
- psychobiography
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “biography” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.