English Online Dictionary. What means biography? What does biography mean?
English
Etymology
From New Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Noun
biography (countable and uncountable, plural biographies)
- A person's life story, especially one published.
- The art of writing this kind of story.
Derived terms
- autobiography
- heterobiography
- psychobiography
Related terms
- biographer
- biographical
- biographism
- hagiography
- pathography
Translations
Verb
biography (third-person singular simple present biographies, present participle biographying, simple past and past participle biographied)
- (transitive) To write a biography of.
Anagrams
- ribophagy