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Autobiography

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

au·to·bi·og·ra·phy

[aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-]
noun, plural -phies.
a history of a person's life written or told by that person.

Origin:
1790–1800; auto-1 + biography

au·to·bi·og·ra·pher, noun
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Autobiography has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
Example Sentences
  • Of the nature of an autobiography rather than of a diary, this is one of the most delightful books of the kind in the language.
  • Cutler insists the work is not an autobiography masquerading as a novel.
  • His now famous autobiography was published posthumously in 1965.
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autobiography (ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ, ˌɔːtəbaɪ-)
 
n , pl -phies
an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person
 
autobi'ographer
 
n

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Word Origin & History

autobiography
1797, from auto- + biography (q.v.). Related: Autobiographical (1831).
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autobiography definition


A literary work about the writer's own life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.

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