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autobiography

[ aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh- ]

noun

plural autobiographies.
  1. a history of a person's life written or told by that person.


autobiography

/ ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ; ˌɔːtəbaɪ- /

noun

  1. an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person
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autobiography

  1. A literary work about the writer's own life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinand Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܳٴDzˈDz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t··Dz۲· noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of autobiography1

First recorded in 1790–1800; auto- 1 + biography
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To the audition, he "wore oversize gonky Australian shorts in nausea green" in an attempt to put the producers off, he wrote in his autobiography.

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In his autobiography, he said he was waving the flag "as much for myself as for the country".

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"I had been angry and amazed from the moment I heard about it," he wrote in his autobiography later that year.

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Young had just penned his autobiography, was in the process of writing a children’s book and had finished working on a song for Future Youth Records, Jensen said.

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When it came to authoring his memoirs, Wolf turned to none other than Bruce Springsteen, the author of the bestselling "Born to Run" autobiography, for advice.

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