What does Biography mean?

Definitions for Biography
baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi-bi·og·ra·phy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. biography, life, life story, life historynoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. biographynoun

    A person's life story, especially one published.

    There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

  2. biographyverb

    To write a biography of.

  3. Etymology: From modern Latin biographia, formed from βίος + γράφω.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Biographynoun

    In writing the lives of men, which is called biography, some authors place every thing in the precise order of time when it occurred. Isaac Watts Logick.

    Etymology: βίος and γϱαφω.

Wikipedia

  1. Biography

    A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter.

ChatGPT

  1. biography

    A biography is a detailed account or description of a person's life, chronicling the experiences, events, achievements, and attributes of that individual. This account is generally written by someone else and includes in-depth research, including interviews with people who knew or worked with the person being profiled.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Biographynoun

    the written history of a person's life

  2. Biographynoun

    biographical writings in general

Wikidata

  1. Biography

    A biography is a detailed description or account of a person's life. It entails more than basic facts - a biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae, a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media — from literature to film — form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Biography

    bī-og′raf-i, n. a written account or history of the life of an individual: the art of writing such accounts.—n. Biog′rapher, one who writes biography.—adjs. Biograph′ic, -al.—adv. Biograph′ically. [Gr. bios, life, graphein, to write.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Biography

    Works consisting of an account of the events, works, and achievements, personal and professional, during a person's life. It includes articles on the activities and accomplishments of living persons as well as the presentation of an obituary.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Biography' in Nouns Frequency: #2989

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Biography in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Biography in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Biography in a Sentence

  1. David Kendall:

    This is not a case about the dissemination to the public of classified information, no classified information appeared in the biography. Not a single syllable.

  2. Some CEOs:

    Nooyi's biography is itself evidence of the power of allowing US-educated immigrants to remain working in the country. Born and raised in India, Indra Nooyi enrolled at the Yale School of Management, became a naturalized US citizen and rose to the highest echelons of American corporate life.Some CEOs also used the dinner as an opportunity to raise their concerns with the President about the effect of his budding trade war with major US trading partners.Trump told Macron EU worse than China on trade.

  3. André Maurois:

    A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

  4. Evan Thomas:

    Nixon's paranoia went up a great deal after he lost in 1960, partly because he felt the Kennedys had used dirty tricks to defeat him, he felt the Kennedys were better at dirty tricks than he was in 1960. And he was probably not wrong about that. The Kennedys played hardball. And [his brother] Bobby Kennedy was probably smarter about dirty tricks in 1960 than Richard Nixon was. I say that having written a biography of Bobby Kennedy.

  5. Dan Goldman:

    The web of lies George Santos used to defraud George Santos voters is a threat to our free and fair elections, and we have an obligation to ensure nothing like this ever happens again, his entire candidacy for Congress was predicated on a campaign of disinformation designed to deceive the voters. George Santos lied about George Santos entire biography and resume, including religion, family history, education, and professional experience. I am proud to join my fellow New York Congressman Ritchie Torres to introduce this critical piece of legislation to safeguard the democratic process.

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