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lifetelling

lifetelling is the alternative form of life-telling.

Meaning of life-telling

Noun

life-telling (countable and uncountable, plural life-tellings)

  1. The telling of someone's personal experience; biographical or autobiographical communication.
    • Leading characters, by contrast, were, according to convention, the sum of their Remarkable Transactions which required that, to trump traditional histories, their life-telling must be not only authentic but also original and human.2015, D. A. B. Ronald, Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda

Forms of lifetelling

plurallifetellings

Questions about lifetelling

What is lifetelling the alternative form of?
Lifetelling is the alternative form of life-telling.

Words near lifetelling in the dictionary

  1. lifetable
  2. lifetables
  3. lifetaker
  4. lifetakers
  5. lifetap
  6. lifetelling
  7. lifetellings
  8. lifethread
  9. lifetime
  10. lifetime job
  11. lifetime jobs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lifetelling (page history and authors); life-telling (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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