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autobiography
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/ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
noun
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In plain English
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noun
A book about a person's life written by that person.
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noun
Extra detailBiographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
Examples
His autobiography was released today and was sold out by noon.
In his autobiography, he repeatedly refers to his unhappy school days.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 3
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 2
- Synonyms
- 2
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningA self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
More examples
In contextAutobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]
Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography.
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Origin
noun
From auto- + biography.