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    autobiography
    /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)bʌɪˈɒɡrəfi/

    noun

    • 1. an account of a person's life written by that person: "he gives a vivid description of his childhood in his autobiography"

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  2. AUTOBIOGRAPHY definition: 1. a book about a person's life, written by that person: 2. the area of literature relating to…. Learn more.

  3. The meaning of AUTOBIOGRAPHY is the biography of a person narrated by that person : a usually written account of a person's life in their own words. How to use autobiography in a sentence.

  4. An autobiography, [a] sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life. Definition. The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic".

  5. autobiography, the biography of oneself narrated by oneself. Autobiographical works can take many forms, from the intimate writings made during life that were not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to a formal book-length autobiography.

  6. Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself. He published his autobiography last autumn. Synonyms: life story , record , history , résumé More Synonyms of autobiography

  7. May 24, 2019 · An autobiography is an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person. Adjective: autobiographical. Many scholars regard the Confessions (c. 398) by Augustine of Hippo (354–430) as the first autobiography.

  8. An account of a person's life given by himself or herself, esp. one published in book form. Also: the process of writing such an account; these considered as a literary genre. Also in extended use. 1797. The next dissertation concerns Diaries, and Self-biography.