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- DictionaryBi·og·ra·phy/bīˈäɡrəfē/
noun
- 1. an account of someone's life written by someone else.
biography. noun. bi· og· ra· phy bī-ˈä-grə-fē. also bē- plural biographies. Synonyms of biography. 1. : a usually written history of a person's life. a new biography of Abraham Lincoln. 2. : biographical writings as a whole. the genre of biography. 3. : an account of the life of something (such as an animal, a coin, or a building)
the life story of a person written by someone else: He wrote a biography of Winston Churchill. Compare. autobiography. life history. life story. Fewer examples. This biography offers a few glimpses of his life before he became famous. Her biography revealed that she was not as rich as everyone thought. The biography was a bit of a rush job.
Biography definition: a written account of another person's life. See examples of BIOGRAPHY used in a sentence.
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.
the story of the life of a person written by someone else, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories: [ C ] He wrote a biography of Lincoln. biographical. adjective [ not gradable ] us / ˌbɑɪ·əˈɡræf·ɪ·kəl / The funeral elegy provides a treasure of biographical information about Shakespeare.
biography, form of literature, commonly considered nonfictional, the subject of which is the life of an individual. One of the oldest forms of literary expression, it seeks to re-create in words the life of a human being—as understood from the historical or personal perspective of the author—by drawing upon all available evidence, including ...
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.
