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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("autobiography" is a kind of...):
biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "autobiography"):
memoir (an account of the author's personal experiences)
Derivation:
autobiographer (someone who writes their own biography)
autobiographical (relating to or in the style of an autobiography)
autobiographical (of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer)