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View synonyms for autobiography

autobiography

[ aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh- ]

noun

, plural au·to·bi·og·ra·phies.
  1. a history of a person's life written or told by that person.


autobiography

/ ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ; ˌɔːtəbaɪ- /

noun

  1. an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person


autobiography

  1. A literary work about the writer's own life. and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.


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Derived Forms

  • ˌautobiˈographer, noun

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Other Words From

  • auto·bi·ogra·pher noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of autobiography1

First recorded in 1790–1800; auto- 1 + biography

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Example Sentences

Glow: The Autobiography of Rick JamesRick James David Ritz (Atria Books) Where to begin?

Hulanicki was the subject of a 2009 documentary, Beyond Biba, based on her 2007 autobiography From A to Biba.

And it was also during the phase of the higher autobiography.

“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.

Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.

No; her parents had but small place in that dramatic autobiography that Daphne was now constructing for herself.

His collected works, with autobiography, were published in 1865 under the editorship of Charles Hawkins.

But there is one point about the book that deserves some considering, its credibility as autobiography.

I thought you were anxious for leisure to complete your autobiography.

The smallest fragment of a genuine autobiography seems to me valuable for the student of past epochs.

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