an account of a person's life by another such accounts collectively
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bi•og•ra•phy /baɪˈɑgrəfi, bi-/USA pronunciation
n., pl. -phies.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- a written account of another person's life:[countable]Boswell wrote a famous biography of Samuel Johnson.
- [uncountable] such writings thought of as a group.
bi•og•ra•phy
(bī og′rə fē, bē-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -phies.
- a written account of another person's life:the biography of Byron by Marchand.
- an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc.
- such writings collectively.
- the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor.
- Greek biographía. See bio-, -graphy
- 1675–85
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'biography' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-graphy
- Bancroft Prize
- Christine de Pisan
- D.N.B.
- Froude
- Johnson
- Life of Samuel Johnson, The
- Plutarchian
- Stephen
- Trevelyan
- appear
- autobiography
- bio
- bio-
- biog
- biog.
- biographee
- biographer
- biographical
- biopic
- buff
- dab
- definitive
- document
- draw
- dry-as-dust
- fable
- fictionalize
- hagiography
- hagiology
- life
- literature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- obituary
- overstuffed
- pathography
- portrait
- profile
- psychobiography
- psychograph
- tell-all
- wart