autobiography
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tə noun, plural au·to·bi·og·ra·phies.
a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
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autobiography (ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ, ˌɔːtəbaɪ-) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -phies | |
| an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person | |
| autobi'ographer | |
| —n | |
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Autobiography
has a plethora of syllables.
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| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S. |
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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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Example sentences
Autobiography: a written history of your life written by you.
Your resume should be a short marketing piece, not an autobiography.
He's smart enough to put his amazingly pretty face on the cover of his new autobiography.
In a chilling autobiography a former gang member portrays himself as the inevitable product of a hellish environment.
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