Biography

Bi-og′ra-phy

,

Noun.

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pl.

Biographies

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[Gr.

[GREEK]

;

βίοσ

life +

[GREEK]

to write: cf. F.

biographie

. See

Graphic

.]

1.

The written history of a person’s life.

2.

Biographical writings in general.

Biography

BIOG'RAPHY

,

Noun.

[Gr.life, and to write.]

The history of the life and character of a particular person.

biography

English

Noun

biography ‎(plural biographies)

A person's life story, especially one published.
There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

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personal life story

Albanian: biografi (sq)
Arabic: سِيرَة f ‎(sīra), تَرْجَمَة حَيَاة f ‎(tarjamat ḥayāh)
Armenian: կենսագրություն (hy) ‎(kensagrutʿyun)
Asturian: biografía f
Belarusian: біягра́фія f ‎(bijahráfija)
Bulgarian: биогра́фия (bg) f ‎(biográfija), животопи́с (bg) m ‎(životopís)
Catalan: biografia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傳記 (zh), 传记 (zh) ‎(zhuànjì)
Czech: životopis (cs) m
Danish: biografi (da) c
Dutch: biografie (nl) f
Esperanto: biografio
Estonian: elulugu, biograafia
Faroese: ævisøga f
Finnish: elämäkerta (fi)
French: biographie (fr) f
Galician: biografía (gl) f
Georgian: ბიოგრაფია ‎(biograpia)
German: Biografie (de) f, (old spelling) Biographie (de) f
Greek: βιογραφία (el) f ‎(viografía)
Haitian Creole: biyografi
Hungarian: életrajz (hu), biográfia (hu)
Indonesian: biografi (id)
Irish: beathaisnéis f
Italian: biografia (it) f
Japanese: 伝記 (ja) ‎(でんき, denki)
Kalmyk: намтр ‎(namtr)

Korean: 전기 (ko) ‎(jeongi) (傳記 (ko))
Lao: ຊີວະປະຫວັດ (lo) ‎(sī wa pa wat)
Latin: curriculum vitae n, biographia f
Latvian: biogrāfija f
Lithuanian: biografija (lt) f
Macedonian: биографија f ‎(biografija), животопис m ‎(životopis)
Maori: kōrero haurongo, kōrero koiora
Norwegian:

Bokmål: biografi (no) m

Nynorsk: biografi m
Persian: زندگی‌نامه ‎(zendegi-nâme)
Polish: biografia (pl) f
Portuguese: biografia (pt) f
Romanian: biografie (ro) f
Russian: биогра́фия (ru) f ‎(biográfija), (rare) жизнеописа́ние (ru) n ‎(žizneopisánije)
Scottish Gaelic: beath-eachdraidh f, eachdraidh-beatha f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: животопис m, биографија f

Roman: životopis (sh) m, biografija (sh) f
Slovak: životopis m
Slovene: življenjepis (sl) m, biografija f
Spanish: biografía (es) f
Swedish: biografi (sv) c
Turkish: biyografi (tr), yaşamöyküsü (tr)
Ukrainian: біогра́фія (uk) f ‎(biohráfija)
Uyghur: تەرجىمەھال ‎(terjimehal)
Vietnamese: tiểu sử (vi)
Yiddish: ביאָגראַפֿיע f ‎(byografye)

Verb

biography ‎(third-person singular simple present biographies, present participle biographying, simple past and past participle biographied)

(transitive) To write a biography of.

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