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Definition of biography noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

biography

noun

NAmE//baɪˈɑɡrəfi//

[countable, uncountable] (pl. biographies)

the story of a person's life written by someone else; this type of writing Boswell's biography of Johnson compare autobiography

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biographical

NAmE//ˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪkl//

adjectiveSee biography in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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