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LIFE HISTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The general progression of your working or professional life
Example:
he had a long career in the law
Synonyms:
career; life history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("life history" is a kind of...):
advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression (the act of moving forward (as toward a goal))
Sense 2
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 ("life history" 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 "life history"):
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)
