Autobiography

//ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A self-written biography; the story of one's own life. countable

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    a biography of yourself wordnet
  3. 3
    Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre. uncountable

Example

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"In his autobiography, he repeatedly refers to his unhappy school days."

Etymology

From auto- + biography.

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