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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another: a film biography of Adlai Stevenson; an oral biography.
  2. n. Biographies considered as a group, especially when regarded as a genre.
  3. n. The writing, composition, or production of biographies: a career entirely devoted to biography.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The history of the life of a particular person.
  2. n. Biographical writing in general, or as a department of literature.
  3. n. In natural history, the life-history of an animal or a plant. Synonyms Biography, Memoir. When there is a difference between these words, it may be that memoir indicates a less complete or minute account of a person's life, or it may be that the person himself records his own recollections of the past, especially as connected with his own life; in the latter case memoir should be in the plural.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person's life story, especially one published.
  2. v. transitive To write a biography of.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The written history of a person's life.
  2. n. Biographical writings in general.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an account of the series of events making up a person's life

Etymologies

  1. From modern Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος ("life") + γράφω ("write"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Greek biographiā : Greek bio-, bio- + Greek -graphiā, -graphy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Prolagus

    Me and the Major could become close friends cause we
    Get on the same train and he wants to talk to me
    Me and the Major could become close friends cause we
    Get on the same train and he wants to talk
    But there is too much history, too much biography between us.

    (Me and the Major, by Belle and Sebastian) Apr 27, 2009

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