biography
UK/baɪˈɒɡɹəfi//baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/
biography noun: a person's life story, especially one published.
Noun
biography (countable and uncountable, plural biographies)
- A person's life story, especially one published.
- There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
- The art of writing this kind of story.
- She is best known for biography and history, but she is also a novelist.
Verb
biography (third-person singular simple present biographies, present participle biographying, simple past and past participle biographied)
- To write a biography of.
biography meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
biography in Hindi
- personal life story
- जीवनी jīvnī, जीवनकथा jīvnakthā, ज़िंदगीनामा zindgīnāmā
biography in Tamil
- personal life story
- வாழ்க்கை வரலாறு vāḻkkai varalāṟu
biography in Urdu
- biography, life history
- سیرت sīrat
biography in Malayalam
- personal life story
- ജീവചരിത്രം jīvacaritraṁ
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- biography in Kannada
- ಜೀವನ ಚರಿತ್ರೆ, ಜೀವನ ವೃತ್ತಾಂತ
- biography in Punjabi
- ਜੀਵਨੀ jīvnī
- biography in Gujarati
- જીવનચરિત્ર jīvancaritra
- biography in Nepali
- जीवनी jīvanī
- biography in Arabic
- سِيرَة sīra, تَرْجَمَةُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ tarjamatu l-ḥayāti
- biography in Indonesian
- biografi
- biography in Persian
- زندگینامه zendegi-nâme
- biography in Thai
- ชีวประวัติ chii-wá-bprà-wàt
- biography in Vietnamese
- tiểu sử
- biography in Myanmar
- အတ္ထုပ္ပတ် athtuppat, အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ athtuppatti.
Examples of biography in a sentence
- She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
- Encyclopedias, how-to manuals and biographies are all considered nonfiction and so are kept in the nonfiction section.
- Reading business biographies is interesting, but they are not cookbooks that can teach hacks how to be greats.
Forms of biography
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | biographies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | biographies |
| present participle | biographying |
| past participle | biographied |
| past | biographied |
Origin of biography
Borrowed from New Latin biographia, from Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā), from βίος (bíos, life) + -γραφία (-graphía, writing).
Words formed from biography
Words that rhyme with biography
- geography
- choreography
- orthography
- topography
- chirography
- hagiography
- heliography
- phonography
- semiography
- acrography
- autography
- bibliography
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cacography
- chromography
- demography
- discography
- iconography
- isography
- logography
- ludography
- metallography
- micrography
- paleography
- pantography
- pornography
- scenography
- typography
- videography
- aerography
- archaeography
- arteriography
- arthrography
- autobiography
- autohagiography
- biogeography
- cartography
- cerography
- chronography
- cinematography
- cosmography
- crystallography
- dactylography
- demonography
- dittography
- electrography
- enterography
- ethnography
- etymography
- exogeography
- fluorography
- galvanography
- glossography
- heterography
- historiography
- homography
- horologiography
- ichnography
- laryngography
- mechanography
- megalography
Questions about biography
- What does biography mean?
- Biography means a person's life story, especially one published.
- What is biography in Hindi?
- Biography in Hindi is जीवनी (jīvnī), जीवनकथा (jīvnakthā), ज़िंदगीनामा (zindgīnāmā). See Biography meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is biography?
- Biography can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce biography?
- Biography is pronounced /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of biography?
- The plural of biography is biographies.
Words near biography in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: biography (page history and authors); سیرت (Urdu) (page history and authors); biography (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); જીવનચરિત્ર (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.
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