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biography definition

bi·og·ra·phy (bī äg′rə fē; also bē-)

noun

  1. the histories of individual lives, considered as a branch of literature
  2. pl. biographies -·phies an account of a person's life, described by another; life story

Etymology: Gr biographia: see bio- & -graphy

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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

-Carlyle,Thomas

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