autobiography

UK/ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/

autobiography noun: a self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

Noun

autobiography (countable and uncountable, plural autobiographies)

(countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
- Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]1904, Mark Twain, “To W. D. Howells, in New York: Villa di Quarto, Florence, March 14, ’04”, in Albert Bigelow Paine, editor, Mark Twain's Letters, volume 2, published 1917, page 751
- Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI
(uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.

autobiography meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

autobiography in Hindi

biography of oneself: आत्मकथा ātmakathā, आपबीती āpbītī

autobiography in Tamil

biography of oneself: தன்வரலாறு taṉvaralāṟu, சுயசரிதை cuyacaritai

autobiography in Urdu

آپ بیتی, ذاتی سوانح عمری

autobiography in Bengali

আত্মজীবনী, আত্মচরিত

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autobiography in Malayalam: ആത്മകഥ, സ്വന്തം ജീവചരിത്രം, ജീവചരിത്രം, അനുഭവം
autobiography in Kannada: ಆತ್ಮಕಥೆ
autobiography in Gujarati: આત્મકથા ātmakathā
autobiography in Tagalog: awtobiyograpiya, saribuhay
autobiography in Arabic: سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّة
autobiography in Indonesian: autobiografi
autobiography in Persian: حسبحال hasb-e-hâl
autobiography in Thai: อัตชีวประวัติ
autobiography in Vietnamese: tự truyện

Examples of autobiography in a sentence

Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.
Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
The aborigine's autobiography was also an autoethnography. It told much about the culture he grew up in.

All 26 example sentences with autobiography

Synonyms of autobiography

Antonyms

heterobiography

Forms of autobiography

plural	autobiographies

Plural of autobiography: autobiographies

Origin of autobiography

From auto- + biography.

Words formed from autobiography

Words that rhyme with autobiography

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Questions about autobiography

What does autobiography mean?: Autobiography means a self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
What is autobiography in Hindi?: Autobiography in Hindi is आत्मकथा (ātmakathā), आपबीती (āpbītī). See Autobiography meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is autobiography?: Autobiography is a noun.
How do you pronounce autobiography?: Autobiography is pronounced /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ (UK).
What is the plural of autobiography?: The plural of autobiography is autobiographies.

Words near autobiography in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: autobiography (page history and authors); autobiography (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); autobiography (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); autobiography (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); autobiography (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); આત્મકથા (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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