biography definition and etymology

Definition: Biography

• 1 Etymology
• 2.1 Derived terms
• 2.2 Related terms

From New Latin biographia , formed from Ancient Greek βίος or bíos (life) + γράφω or gráphō (write).

biography (countable and uncountable, plural biographies )

• A person's life story, especially one published. There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin .
• The art of writing this kind of story.

Derived terms

• antibiography
• autobiography
• biographize
• biomythography
• heterobiography
• minibiography
• osteobiography
• photobiography
• psychobiography

Related terms

• biographical
• biographism
• hagiography
• pathography

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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