What does autobiography mean?

Definitions for autobiography
ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ-au·to·bi·og·ra·phy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. autobiographynoun

    a biography of yourself

Wiktionary

  1. autobiographynoun

    A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

Wikipedia

  1. Autobiography

    An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.

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  1. autobiography

    An autobiography is a self-written account of the life of oneself. It is a narrative or book that presents a life history of the person who wrote it and the details of their personal experiences, memories, and reflections. The content of an autobiography is often inclusive of the author's personal perspective and interpretation of events and facts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Autobiographynoun

    a biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self

  2. Etymology: [Auto- + biography.]

Wikidata

  1. Autobiography

    An autobiography is a self-written account of the life of a person.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Autobiography

    aw-to-bī-og′raf-i, n. the biography or life of a person written by himself.—n. Autobiog′rapher, one who writes his own life.—adjs. Autobiograph′ic, -al. [Gr. autos, one's self, bios, life, graphein, to write.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. autobiography

    1. Auto-intoxication. 2. Things which no one else will say about you, and which therefore you have to say of yourself.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Autobiography

    The life of a person written by himself or herself. (Harrod's Librarians' Glossary, 7th ed)

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of autobiography in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of autobiography in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of autobiography in a Sentence

  1. Lady Bird:

    This feels like autobiography, when you live through a book, it almost becomes the landscape of your inner life. ... It becomes part of you, in a profound way.

  2. Katherine Paterson:

    Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

  3. Samuel Goldwyn:

    I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.

  4. George Orwell:

    An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

  5. Philip Roth:

    I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

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