Biography

Word BIOGRAPHY
Character 9
Hyphenation bi og ra phy
Pronunciations /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

Definitions and meanings of "Biography"

What do we mean by biography?

An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another. noun

Biographies considered as a group, especially when regarded as a genre. noun

The writing, composition, or production of biographies. noun

The history of the life of a particular person. noun

Biographical writing in general, or as a department of literature. noun

In natural history, the life-history of an animal or a plant. noun

The written history of a person's life. noun

Biographical writings in general. noun

A person's life story, especially one published. noun

To write a biography of. verb

An account of the series of events making up a person's life noun

A person's life story, especially one published.

The art of writing this kind of story.

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The word "biography" in example sentences

And as this historic race between two women candidates for the state's top office nears its conclusion, that gap in her biography is attracting increasing attention. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

I find it difficult not to acknowledge all the contributions the people in my lab have made, but this biography is already too long. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clue #5: The author of this biography is a man who shares a name with a “lordly” English poet. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Throughout, Cook's adherence to the Corps 'traditional leadership principles and knowledge of the Code of Conduct are highlighted, and his biography is a unique case study of exemplary leadership under extremely difficult conditions. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Humble to an almost saintly degree he created the theramin "biography" that is known to us today and remained the instrument's unsung creator, content to allow the false story to flourish, so as not to estrange his "familiar music" public. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

Toward the end of the biography is an extended episode, straight out of Evelyn Waugh at his cruelest, in which the elderly Yeats, having traveled to Majorca with Shri Purohit Swami (a flatulent Hindu mystic with whom he was "translating" the Upanishads) and Lady Gwyneth Foden (a deranged and vindictive fraud whose real name was Gertrude Woolcott), is stricken with nephritis and has to be rescued by his stalwart wife from his suddenly hostile companions, and also from the help offered by his crazed paramour, Margot Ruddock, an aspiring actress. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Tom Rosenbauer's biography is too long to list here, but rest assured as being head of the Orvis marketing department, and with the company for more than 29 years he's seen and done it all in fly fishing. ❋ Tim Romano (2009)

But alongside the creative interpretations that take place in biography, there is also a pact with accuracy and a responsibility towards likeness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An eight-hundred-page biography is nothing more than dead conjecture, he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is a short biography from the Melkite point of view here. ❋ John (2009)

Their biography is vastly different from their canon counterparts, as are their roles in the world, and therefore, very different are their personalities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Agency Curtis Brown said the biography is set for worldwide publication on Tutu's 80th birthday in October next year. ❋ Benedicte Page (2010)

Explicitly, the book asks us to weigh ideas of fate: "Any biography is chance, and, beginning at conception, chance – the tyranny of contingency – is everything." ❋ Edward Docx (2010)

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