biography
verbEtymology Borrowed from New Latin biographia, from Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā), from βίος (bíos, life) + -γραφία (-graphía, writing).
1
To write a biography of.
biography
nounUK /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/ · US /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/
Etymology Borrowed from New Latin biographia, from Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā), from βίος (bíos, life) + -γραφία (-graphía, writing).
1
A person's life story, especially one published.
- There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
2
The art of writing this kind of story.
- She is best known for biography and history, but she is also a novelist.
- Derived terms
- antibiography, autobiography, biographee, biographette, biographize, biomythography, blogography, heterobiography, minibiography, osteobiography, photobiography, psychobiography
- Related terms
- biodoc, biographer, biographical, biographism, biopic, hagiography, pathography, docudrama