biography

English

Etymology

From modern Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
(General American) IPA^(key): /baɪˈɑːɡɹəfi/
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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.

Derived terms

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Translations

personal life story

Albanian: biografi (sq)
Arabic: سِيرَة‎ f (sīra), تَرْجَمَةُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ‎ f (tarjamatu l-ḥayāti)
Armenian: կենսագրություն (hy) (kensagrutʿyun)
Asturian: biografía f
Belarusian: біягра́фія f (bijahráfija)
Bulgarian: биогра́фия (bg) f (biográfija), животопи́с (bg) m (životopís)
Catalan: biografia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傳記 (zh), 传记 (zh) (zhuànjì)
Czech: životopis (cs) m
Danish: biografi (da) c
Dutch: biografie (nl) f
Esperanto: biografio
Estonian: elulugu, biograafia
Faroese: ævisøga f
Finnish: elämäkerta (fi)
French: biographie (fr) f
Galician: biografía (gl) f
Georgian: ბიოგრაფია (biograpia)
German: Biografie (de) f, (old spelling) Biographie (de) f
Greek: βιογραφία (el) f (viografía)
Haitian Creole: biyografi
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hindi: जीवनी (hi) f (jīvnī), जीवनकथा f (jīvnakthā), ज़िंदगीनामा m (zindgīnāmā)
Hungarian: életrajz (hu), biográfia (hu)
Indonesian: biografi (id)
Irish: beathaisnéis f
Italian: biografia (it) f
Japanese: 伝記 (ja) (でんき, denki)
Kalmyk: намтр (namtr)

Korean: 전기 (ko) (jeon-gi) (傳記 (ko))
Lao: ຊີວະປະຫວັດ (lo) (sī wa pa wat)
Latin: curriculum vitae n, biographia f
Latvian: biogrāfija f
Lithuanian: biografija (lt) f
Macedonian: биографија f (biografija), животопис m (životopis)
Maori: kōrero haurongo, kōrero koiora, haurongo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: biografi (no) m

Nynorsk: biografi m
Persian: زندگی‌نامه‎ (zendegi-nâme)
Polish: biografia (pl) f
Portuguese: biografia (pt) f
Romanian: biografie (ro) f
Russian: биогра́фия (ru) f (biográfija), (rare) жизнеописа́ние (ru) n (žizneopisánije)
Scottish Gaelic: beath-eachdraidh f, eachdraidh-beatha f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: животопис m, биографија f

Roman: životopis (sh) m, biografija (sh) f
Slovak: životopis m
Slovene: življenjepis (sl) m, biografija f
Spanish: biografía (es) f
Swedish: biografi (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ชีวประวัติ
Turkish: biyografi (tr), yaşamöyküsü (tr)
Ukrainian: біогра́фія (uk) f (biohráfija)
Uyghur: تەرجىمەھال‎ (terjimehal)
Vietnamese: tiểu sử (vi)
Yiddish: ביאָגראַפֿיע‎ f (byografye)

Verb

biography (third-person singular simple present biographies, present participle biographying, simple past and past participle biographied)

(transitive) To write a biography of.

Anagrams

ribophagy

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