autobiography

The definition of an autobiography is someone's life story written by that person.

(noun)

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama is an example of an autobiography.

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See autobiography in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. autobiographies

  1. the art or practice of writing one's own biography
  2. the story of one's own life written or dictated by oneself

Origin: auto- + biography: coined (1809) by Robert Southey

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See autobiography in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. au·to·bi·og·ra·phies
The biography of a person written by that person.

Related Forms:

  • auˌto·bi·ogˈra·pher noun
  • auˌto·biˌo·graphˈic (-bīˌə-grăfˈĭk), auˌto·biˌo·graphˈi·cal adjective
  • auˌto·biˌo·graphˈi·cal·ly adverb

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