life histories
life histories is the plural of life history.
Meaning of life history
Noun
life history (countable and uncountable, plural life histories)
- An investigation into the details and activities of a person over the course of their lifetime; one’s background.
- His life history shows that he frequently moves from town to town, moving from one job to the next.
- Information concerning a person’s diseases and medical disorders suffered during his or her lifetime; especially useful if the disorders are genetic.
- The set of stages that an organism, or a species, experiences over its lifetime, from conception to death.
Questions about life histories
- What is life histories the plural of?
- Life histories is the plural of life history.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: life histories (page history and authors); life history (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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