biographer (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *biographer*:
NOUN	person	biographer	someone who writes an account of a person's life

biographer > pronunciation
Sounds	bayaa'grahfer
Rhymes	aquifer ... zephyr / Zephyr: 60 rhymes with fer...

English > *biographer*: 1 sense > noun 1, person
Meaning	someone who writes an account of a person's life.
Instances	Plutarch	Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
Instances	Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Giles Lytton Strachey	English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
Narrower	autobiographer	someone who writes their own biography
Narrower	hagiographer, hagiographist, hagiologist	The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography
Broader	writer, author	Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
Spanish	biógrafa, biógrafo
Catalan	biògraf
Nouns	biography	an account of the series of events making up a person's life

HyperDic: biographer