biography

 
Pronunciation: /bʌɪˈɒgrəfi/

noun (plural biographies)

  • an account of someone’s life written by someone else.
  • [mass noun] biographies considered as a literary genre: the basic difference of approach to autobiography and biography
  • the course of a person’s life: although their individual biographies are different, both are motivated by a similar ambition

Derivatives

biographer

noun

Origin:

late 17th century: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios 'life' + -graphia 'writing'