the story of a person’s life written by somebody else; this type of writingBoswell’s biography of JohnsoncompareautobiographyWordfinderbookbiography,blockbuster,book,character,editor,narrator,novel,plot,publish,titleOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveauthorized,official,unauthorized,…verb + biographywork on,write,produce,…prepositionbiography by,biography ofSeefull entrySee related entries:Types of storyWord Originlate 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.Extra examplesThe book gives potted biographies of all the major painters.a biography by Antonia Frasera biography of the former presidenta biography of the prime minister
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