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BIOGRAPHER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who writes an account of a person's life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("biographer" is a kind of...):

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biographer"):

autobiographer (someone who writes their own biography)

hagiographer; hagiographist; hagiologist (the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography)

Instance hyponyms:

Plutarch (Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD))

Giles Lytton Strachey; Lytton Strachey; Strachey (English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932))

Derivation:

biography (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)

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