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- Dictionarybiography/bʌɪˈɒɡrəfi/
noun
- 1. an account of someone's life written by someone else.
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A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.
biography, form of literature, commonly considered nonfictional, the subject of which is the life of an individual. One of the oldest forms of literary expression, it seeks to re-create in words the life of a human being—as understood from the historical or personal perspective of the author—by drawing upon all available evidence, including ...
- Paul Murray Kendall
biography. noun. bi· og· ra· phy bī-ˈä-grə-fē. also bē- plural biographies. Synonyms of biography. 1. : a usually written history of a person's life. a new biography of Abraham Lincoln. 2. : biographical writings as a whole. the genre of biography. 3. : an account of the life of something (such as an animal, a coin, or a building)
A biography is an informational narrative and account of the life history of an individual person, written by someone who is not the subject of the biography. An autobiography is the story of an individual’s life, written by that individual.
BIOGRAPHY definition: 1. the life story of a person written by someone else: 2. the life story of a person written by…. Learn more.
A biography is simply the story of a real person’s life. It could be about a person who is still alive, someone who lived centuries ago, someone who is globally famous, an unsung hero forgotten by history, or even a unique group of people.
the life story of a person written by someone else: He wrote a biography of Winston Churchill. Compare. autobiography. life history. life story. Fewer examples. This biography offers a few glimpses of his life before he became famous. Her biography revealed that she was not as rich as everyone thought. The biography was a bit of a rush job.
