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biographer

biographer noun: the writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.

Noun

biographer (plural biographers)

  1. The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
    • Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."1910 April 22, “Mark Twain is Dead at 74”, in The New York Times
    • In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33

biographer meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Thai

biographer in Urdu

سوانح نگار

biographer in Bengali

জীবনীকার, জীবনী লেখক

biographer in Thai

the writer of a biography
นักเขียนชีวประวัติ

Examples of biographer in a sentence

  • Charles has been described by his biographer Catherine Mayer as “loyal to a fault.
  • Keppel, as her biographer Diana Souhami has written, "turned adultery into an art."
  • Burroughs's biographer, Ted Morgan, “a sort of Virgilian guide to the lower depths.”

All 14 example sentences with biographer

Forms of biographer

pluralbiographers

Plural of biographer: biographers

Origin of biographer

From biography + -er.

Words formed from biographer

Questions about biographer

What does biographer mean?
Biographer means the writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
What is biographer in Urdu?
Biographer in Urdu is سوانح نگار. See Biographer meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is biographer?
Biographer is a noun.
What is the plural of biographer?
The plural of biographer is biographers.

Words near biographer in the dictionary

  1. biograph
  2. biographal
  3. biographed
  4. biographee
  5. biographees
  6. biographer
  7. biographers
  8. biographette
  9. biographettes
  10. biographic
  11. biographical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biographer (page history and authors); biographer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); biographer (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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