English-Thai Dictionary

biography

N อัตชีวประวัติ  ประวัติ ชีวิต  ประวัติส่วนตัว  ชีวประวัติ  autobiography profile aud-ta-chi-wa-pra-wad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BIOGRAPHY

n.[Gr. life, and to write. ] The history of the life and character of a particular person.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BIOGRAPHY

Bi *og "ra *phy, n.; pl. Biographies. Etym: [Gr. ; life + to write: cf. F. biographie. See Graphic. ]

 

1. The written history of a person's life.

 

2. Biographical writings in general.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

biography

bi og ra phy |bīˈägrəfē baɪˈɑɡrəfi | ▶noun ( pl. biographies ) an account of someone's life written by someone else. • writing of such a type as a branch of literature. • a human life in its course: although their individual biographies are different, both are motivated by a similar ambition. DERIVATIVES bi og ra pher |-fər |noun, bi o graph ic |ˌbīəˈgrafik |adjective, bi o graph i cal |ˌbīəˈgrafikəl |adjective ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life ’ + -graphia ‘writing. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

biography

biog |raphy |bʌɪˈɒgrəfi | ▶noun ( pl. biographies ) an account of someone's life written by someone else. • [ mass noun ] biographies considered as a literary genre. • 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 cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life ’ + -graphia ‘writing ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

biography

biography noun an unauthorized biography of Pat Nixon: life story, life history, life, memoir; informal bio.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

biography

biography noun life story, life history, life, memoir, profile, account; informal bio, biog; rare prosopography.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

biography

bi og ra phy /baɪɑ́ɡrəfi |-ɔ́ɡ -/ (! 強勢は第2音節 ) 〖bio (生命 )graphy (記述したもの )〗名詞 複 -phies /-z /1 C 伝記 (→autobiography )▸ the biography of Chaplin チャップリン伝 2 U 〖集合的に 〗伝記文学, 伝記物 .