Autobiography
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Autobiography is a noun meaning (countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
Meaning
(countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
Example Sentences
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 […]
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.
Word Forms
- autobiographies
Synonyms for autobiography
Depending on context, synonyms include memoir.
Antonyms for autobiography
Common opposites include heterobiography.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biography, memoir, self-help, endogenous, vitae, journal.
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