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au·to·bi·og·ra·phy

Audio Help [aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural -phies.

a history of a person's life written or told by that person.

[Origin: 1790–1800; auto-¹ + biography

]

—Related forms

au·to·bi·og·ra·pher, noun

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au·to·bi·og·ra·phy Audio Help (ô'tō-bī-ŏg'rə-fē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. au·to·bi·og·ra·phies
The biography of a person written by that person.

au'to·bi·og'ra·pher n., au'to·bi'o·graph'ic (-bī'ə-grāf'ĭk), au'to·bi'o·graph'i·cal adj., au'to·bi'o·graph'i·cal·ly adv.

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autobiography

1797, from auto-, from Gk. autos "self" + biography (q.v.).

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autobiography
noun
a biography of yourself

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autobiography [oːtəbaiˈogrəfi] noun

the story of a person's life written by himself

Arabic:	تَرْجَمَة حَياة المُؤلِّف بِقَلَمِه
Chinese (Simplified):	自传
Chinese (Traditional):	自傳
Czech:	autobiografie
Danish:	selvbiografi
Dutch:	autobiografie
Estonian:	autobiograafia
Finnish:	omaelämäkerta
French:	autobiographie
German:	die Autobiographie
Greek:	αυτοβιογραφία
Hungarian:	önéletrajz
Icelandic:	sjálfsævisaga
Indonesian:	otobiografi
Italian:	autobiografia

Japanese:	自叙伝
Korean:	자서전
Latvian:	autobiogrāfija
Lithuanian:	autobiografija
Norwegian:	selvbiografi
Polish:	autobiografia
Portuguese (Brazil):	autobiografia
Portuguese (Portugal):	autobiografia
Romanian:	autobiografie
Russian:	автобиография
Slovak:	autobiografia, vlastný životopis
Slovenian:	avtobiografija
Spanish:	autobiografía
Swedish:	självbiografi
Turkish:	otobiyografi, öz yaşam öyküsü

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
autobiography

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

[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English

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Autobiography

Au`to*bi*og"ra*phy\, n.; pl. Autobiographies. [Auto- + biography.] A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

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