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bio- before a vowel, bi- combining form 1. indicating or involving life or living organisms biogenesis biolysis 2. indicating a human life or career biography biopic [from Greek bios life] bi·og·ra·phy (b-gr-f) n. pl. bi·og·ra·phies 1. An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another: a film biography of Adlai Stevenson; an oral biography. 2. Biographies considered as a group, especially when regarded as a genre. 3. The writing, composition, or production of biographies: a career entirely devoted to biography. [Late Greek biographi : Greek bio-, bio- + Greek -graphi, -graphy.] biography [baɪˈɒgrəfɪ] n pl -phies 1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an account of a person's life by another 2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) such accounts collectively biographer n biographical [ˌbaɪəˈgræfɪkəl] archaic, biographic adj biographically adv Noun 1. biography - an account of the series of events making up a person's life life history, life story, life account, chronicle, history, story - a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" autobiography - a biography of yourself hagiography - a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) profile - biographical sketch biography noun life story, life, record, account, profile, memoir, CV, life history, curriculum vitae an unauthorised biography Quotations "Biography is all about cutting people down to size. Getting an unruly quart into a pint pot" [Alan Bennett] "Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified" [José Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays] "Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory" [Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming] "Discretion is not the better part of biography" [Lytton Strachey]