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English
Etymology
From New Latin biographia, formed from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
Pronunciation
Noun
biography (countable and uncountable, plural biographies)
- A person's life story, especially one published.
There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
- The art of writing this kind of story.
Derived terms
Translations
personal life story
- Albanian: biografi (sq)
- Arabic: سِيرَة f (sīra), تَرْجَمَةُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ f (tarjamatu l-ḥayāti)
- Armenian: կենսագրություն (hy) (kensagrutʻyun)
- Asturian: biografía f
- Azerbaijani: bioqrafiya, tərcümeyi-hal
- Belarusian: біягра́фія f (bijahráfija)
- Bulgarian: биогра́фия (bg) f (biográfija), животопи́с (bg) m (životopís)
- Catalan: biografia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 傳記／传记 (zh) (zhuànjì)
- Coptic: ⲃⲓⲟⲥ m (bios)
- Czech: životopis (cs) m
- Danish: biografi (da) c
- Dutch: biografie (nl) f
- Esperanto: biografio
- Estonian: elulugu, biograafia
- Faroese: ævisøga f
- Finnish: elämäkerta (fi)
- French: biographie (fr) f
- Galician: biografía (gl) f
- Georgian: ბიოგრაფია (biograpia)
- German: Biografie (de) f, (old spelling) Biographie (de) f
- Greek: βιογραφία (el) f (viografía)
- Haitian Creole: biyografi
- Hebrew: קורות חיים (he) f pl (korót khayím), סיפור חיים m (sipúr khayím), ביוגרפיה (he) f (biyográfya)
- Hindi: जीवनी (hi) f (jīvnī), जीवनकथा f (jīvnakthā), ज़िंदगीनामा m (zindgīnāmā)
- Hungarian: életrajz (hu), biográfia (hu)
- Indonesian: biografi (id)
- Irish: beathaisnéis f
- Italian: biografia (it) f
- Japanese: 伝記 (ja) (でんき, denki)
- Kalmyk: намтр (namtr)
- Korean: 전기(傳記) (ko) (jeon'gi)
- Kyrgyz: өмүрбаян (ömürbayan)
- Lao: ຊີວະປະຫວັດ (lo) (sī wa pa wat)
- Latin: curriculum vitae n, biographia f
- Latvian: biogrāfija f
- Lithuanian: biografija (lt) f
- Macedonian: биографија f (biografija), животопис m (životopis)
- Maori: kōrero haurongo, kōrero koiora, haurongo
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: намтар (mn) (namtar), чадиг (čadig)
- Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠮᠲᠠᠷ (namtar), ᠴᠠᠳᠢᠭ (čadig)
- Nepali: जीवनी (jīvanī)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: biografi (no) m
- Nynorsk: biografi m
- Occitan: biografia (oc) f
- Ottoman Turkish: تذكره (tezkere)
- Persian: زندگینامه (zendegi-nâme)
- Polish: biografia (pl) f
- Portuguese: biografia (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਜੀਵਨੀ f (jīvnī)
- Romanian: biografie (ro) f
- Russian: биогра́фия (ru) f (biográfija), (rare) жизнеописа́ние (ru) n (žizneopisánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: beath-eachdraidh f, eachdraidh-beatha f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: животопис m, биографија f
- Roman: životopis (sh) m, biografija (sh) f
- Slovak: životopis m
- Slovene: življenjepis (sl) m, biografija f
- Spanish: biografía (es) f
- Swedish: biografi (sv) c
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: ชีวประวัติ (th) (chii-wá-bprà-wàt)
- Turkish: biyografi (tr), yaşamöyküsü (tr), tercümeihâl (tr)
- Ukrainian: біогра́фія (uk) f (biohráfija), життє́пис m (žyttjépys)
- Uyghur: تەرجىمەھال (terjimehal)
- Vietnamese: tiểu sử (vi)
- Welsh: cofiant m, bywgraffiad m
- Yiddish: ביאָגראַפֿיע f (byografye)
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Verb
biography (third-person singular simple present biographies, present participle biographying, simple past and past participle biographied)
- (transitive) To write a biography of.
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