Meaning | An account of the series of events making up a person's life. |
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Synonyms | life, life story, life history |
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Instances | Parallel Lives | A collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch |
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Narrower | autobiography | A biography of yourself |
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hagiography | A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) |
profile | biographical sketch |
Broader | history, account, chronicle, story | A record or narrative description of past events |
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Spanish | biografía |
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Catalan | biografia |
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Adjectives | biographic, biographical | of or relating to or being biography |
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Nouns | biographer | someone who writes an account of a person's life |
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