n account of someone’s life written by someone else.
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SYNONYMS
1.1 [MASS NOUN] Biographies considered as a literary genre:
the basic difference of approach to autobiography and biography
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1.2The course of a person’s life:
although their individual biographies are different, both are motivated by a similar ambition
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Origin
late 17th century: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios 'life' + -graphia 'writing'.