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Meaning Autobiography



  1. : a biography written by the person it is about I read her autobiography last year.
  2. The Meaning of Progress Change is not progress. Mencken Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions, which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant; would this be a great joy and happiness to you? Autobiography of John Stuart Mill.

Translations for autobiography

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

  • سيرة ذاتية, السيرة ذاتية
  • автобиография
  • autobiografia
  • autobiografie, vlastní životopis
  • selvbiografi
  • Autobiografie, Autobiographie
  • αυτοβιογραφία
  • membiografio, aŭtobiografio
  • autobiografía
  • حسب‌حال
  • omaelämäkerta
  • autobiographie
  • dírbheathaisnéis
  • autobiografía
  • אוטוביוגרפיה
  • आत्मकथा
  • önéletrajz
  • autobiografi
  • autobiografia
  • אוֹטוֹבִּיוֹגְרָפִיָה
  • 自伝
  • ಆತ್ಮಚರಿತ್ರೆ
  • 자서전
  • Opera
  • автобиографија
  • awtobijografija
  • autobiografie
  • selvbiografi
  • autobiografia
  • autobiografia
  • autobiografie
  • автобиография
  • autobiografija, аутобиографија
  • vlastný životopis
  • autobiografi
  • självbiografi
  • சுயசரிதையில்
  • స్వీయచరిత్రలో
  • อัตชีวประวัติ
  • otobiyografi
  • автобіографія
  • سوانح عمری
  • hồi ký
  • אױטאׇביאׇגראַפֿיע
  • 自传

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Definition of autobiography: the biography of a person narrated by that person: a usually written account of a person's life in their own words celebrity autobiographies The fall and rise of Chrysler Corporation is an oft-told tale—three books on the subject have appeared already, including Lee Iacocca's bestselling autobiography.

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Etymology[edit]

auto- +‎ biography

Meaning

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key): /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
  • Audio (US)
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun[edit]

autobiography (countable and uncountable, pluralautobiographies)

  1. (countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
    • 1904, Mark Twain, “To W. D. Howells, in New York: Villa di Quarto, Florence, March 14, ’04”, in Albert Bigelow Paine, editor, Mark Twain's Letters, volume 2, published 1917, page 751:
      Autobiography[…] 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 […]
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
      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.
  2. (uncountable) Biographies of this kindregarded as a literarygenre.

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Man's Search For Meaning Autobiography

  • autobiographical, autobiographically

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  • Albanian: autobiografi(sq)
  • Arabic: سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّة‎ f(sīra(t) ḏātiyya)
  • Armenian: ինքնակենսագրություն(hy)(inkʿnakensagrutʿyun)
  • Asturian: autobiografíaf
  • Belarusian: аўтабіягра́фіяf(aŭtabijahráfija)
  • Bulgarian: автобиогра́фия(bg)f(avtobiográfija)
  • Catalan: autobiografia(ca)f
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 自傳, 自传(zi6 zyun6-2)
    Mandarin: 自傳(zh), 自传(zh)(zìzhuàn)
    Min Nan: 自傳(zh-min-nan), 自传(chū-toān)
  • Czech: vlastní životopism, autobiografie(cs)f
  • Danish: selvbiografic
  • Dutch: autobiografie(nl)f
  • Esperanto: aŭtobiografio, membiografio
  • Faroese: sjálvsævisøgaf
  • Finnish: omaelämäkerta(fi)
  • French: autobiographie(fr)f
  • Galician: autobiografía(gl)f
  • German: Autobiografie(de)f, Selbstbiographief, Lebenserinnerungenfpl
  • Greek: αυτοβιογραφία(el)f(aftoviografía)
  • Hebrew: אוטוביוגרפיה‎ f(ot'obiografia)
  • Hindi: आत्मकथा(hi)f(ātmakathā), आपबीतीf(āpbītī)
  • Hungarian: önéletrajz(hu)
  • Indonesian: autobiografi(id)
  • Irish: dírbheathaisnéisf
  • Italian: autobiografia(it)f
  • Japanese: 自伝(じでん, jiden), 自叙伝(jijoden)
  • Korean: 자서전(ko)(jaseojeon)
  • Latvian: autobiogrāfijaf
  • Lithuanian: autobiografijaf
  • Macedonian: автобиографијаf(avtobiografija)
  • Maltese: awtobijografija
  • Maori: haukiri
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: selvbiografim
    Nynorsk: sjølvbiografim
  • Persian: حسب‌حال‎ (hasb-e-hâl)
  • Polish: autobiografia(pl)f
  • Portuguese: autobiografia(pt)f
  • Romanian: autobiografie(ro)
  • Russian: автобиогра́фия(ru)f(avtobiográfija)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: аутобиографијаf
    Roman: autobiografija(sh)f
  • Slovak: vlastný životopism
  • Spanish: autobiografía(es)f
  • Swedish: självbiografi(sv)c
  • Tagalog: saribuhay
  • Thai: อัตชีวประวัติ(th)
  • Turkish: otobiyografi(tr), özyaşamöyküsü
  • Ukrainian: автобіогра́фія(uk)f(avtobiohráfija)
  • Yiddish: אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע‎ f(oytobyografye)

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