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BIOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An account of the series of events making up a person's life
Synonyms:
biography; life; life history; life story
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("biography" is a kind of...):
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biography"):
autobiography (a biography of yourself)
hagiography (a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint))
profile (biographical sketch)
Instance hyponyms:
Parallel Lives (a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays)
Derivation:
biographer (someone who writes an account of a person's life)
biographical (of or relating to or being biography)
