Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The biography of a person written by that person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A biography or memoir of a person written by himself.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a biography of yourself
Etymologies
- auto- + biography (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Stephen Fry reading his autobiography is a favourite.”
“This autobiography is the unrepentant rant of a violent sex offender, Nathan McCall, who participated in gang rape and violent assaults and shows no remorse but instead pride.”
“In "Vivre Dans le Feu: Confessions" Éditions Robert Laffont, or "Living in Fire: Confessions," Mr. Todorov has organized extracts from nine volumes of her letters, notes and diaries into what he calls the autobiography she never wrote.”
“Given Keith Richards's reticence to boast of his acclaim and his down-to-earth view of himself at age 66, what kind of celebrity autobiography is his "Life"?”
“I thought, 'Doing this autobiography is more serious than I thought.”
“(The sentence, "Following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus, he just came out with an autobiography," is one of the predicted thirty-six pop culture signs of the Apocalypse.)”
“Deanna Favre, who alluded to her husband's infidelity in her 2007 autobiography, is promoting a new book and was asked about the allegations on "Good Morning America" Thursday.”
“If an autobiography is the true and full story of one's life -- the entire trip so to speak -- a memoir examines recurring scenes along the way.”
The Huffington Post: Will Weaver: Making Sense of the Memoir
“According to her website, a second volume of her autobiography is in the works.”
“SIMON: Sir Michael Caine's new autobiography is called "The Elephant to Hollywood.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘autobiography’.
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Language
word, sentence, novel, book, novella, vignette, memoir, anthology, paragraph, stanza, poem, haiku and 123 more...
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graphs
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bio-
of or relating to life
biology, biohazard, biome, biosphere, biotic, biography, biologist, biographer, biochemistry, biogenesis, autobiography, biostatic and 1 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1847 more...
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-graphy
denoting a science or technique, a style, or a kind of writing
geography, hagiography, calligraphy, radiography, stenography, biography, autobiography
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Literally Literary
Words about literature
novel, novella, drabble, serial, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, epic fantasy, science-fantasy, romance, thriller, fiction and 13 more...
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SAT Literary Terms
allegory, allusion, ambiguity, anecdote, apostrophe, autobiography, biography, characterization, climax, comedy, conclusion, conflict and 37 more...
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the library - the art of writing
chapter, deus ex machina, epilogue, palindrome, allusion, allegory, prose, epic, conjunction, comma, semicolon, period and 41 more...
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bookish
grimoire, bildungsroman, roman a clef, chapbook, picaresque, codicology, epistolary, colophon, manuscript, memoir, incunabulum, bibliomaniac and 47 more...
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