Autobiography
//ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a biography of yourself wordnet
- 3 Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre. uncountable
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"In his autobiography, he repeatedly refers to his unhappy school days."
Etymology
From auto- + biography.
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