| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bi·og·ra·phy |
| PRONUNCIATION: | b - g r -f |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Greek biographi : Greek bio-, bio- + Greek -graphi , -graphy.
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