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Added 8 October 2026

biography

/baɪˈɒɡɹəfi/ noun

In Latin: biographia Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about biography at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A person's life story, especially one published.
There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
The art of writing this kind of story.
She is best known for biography and history, but she is also a novelist.

verb

To write a biography of.

Origin

Borrowed from New Latin biographia, from Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā), from βίος (bíos, life) + -γραφία (-graphía, writing).

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