- the story of a person’s life written by somebody else; this type of writing
- Boswell’s biography of Johnson
- a biography by Antonia Fraser
- The book gives potted biographies of all the major painters.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- authorized
- official
- unauthorized
- …
- work on
- write
- produce
- …
- biography by
- biography of
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.Definitions on the go
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