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
autobiographynoun
a biography of yourself
Wiktionary
autobiographynoun
A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
Webster Dictionary
Autobiographynoun
a biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self
Etymology: [Auto- + biography.]
Freebase
Autobiography
An autobiography is a self-written account of the life of a person.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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
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
Autobiography
The life of a person written by himself or herself. (Harrod's Librarians' Glossary, 7th ed)
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The numerical value of autobiography in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of autobiography in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of autobiography in a Sentence
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
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.
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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Translations for autobiography
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- سيرة ذاتية, السيرة ذاتيةArabic
- автобиографияBulgarian
- autobiografiaCatalan, Valencian
- autobiografie, vlastní životopisCzech
- selvbiografiDanish
- Autobiographie, AutobiografieGerman
- αυτοβιογραφίαGreek
- aŭtobiografio, membiografioEsperanto
- autobiografíaSpanish
- حسبحالPersian
- omaelämäkertaFinnish
- autobiographieFrench
- dírbheathaisnéisIrish
- autobiografíaGalician
- אוטוביוגרפיהHebrew
- आत्मकथाHindi
- önéletrajzHungarian
- autobiografiIndonesian
- autobiografiaItalian
- אוֹטוֹבִּיוֹגְרָפִיָהHebrew
- 自伝Japanese
- ಆತ್ಮಚರಿತ್ರೆKannada
- 자서전Korean
- OperaLatin
- автобиографијаMacedonian
- awtobijografijaMaltese
- autobiografieDutch
- selvbiografiNorwegian
- autobiografiaPolish
- autobiografiaPortuguese
- autobiografieRomanian
- автобиографияRussian
- autobiografija, аутобиографијаSerbo-Croatian
- vlastný životopisSlovak
- autobiografiAlbanian
- självbiografiSwedish
- சுயசரிதையில்Tamil
- స్వీయచరిత్రలోTelugu
- อัตชีวประวัติThai
- otobiyografiTurkish
- автобіографіяUkrainian
- سوانح عمریUrdu
- hồi kýVietnamese
- אױטאׇביאׇגראַפֿיעYiddish
- 自传Chinese
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