autobiography
noun
a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
autobiographies
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pluralof autobiography.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The book’s leading actors have been subjects of biographies and autobiographies, and most events have been exhaustively covered in scholarly and popular histories and articles as well as media reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
“The projections mirror and amplify that as part of the visual vocabulary, whether that’s Douglass’ newspaper articles or autobiographies, or the text of the Emancipation Proclamation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
"In fact she wrote two autobiographies herself so the story is out there but although she was known completely throughout the Commonwealth she is hardly known today which is sad."
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
Chapter 9 is about Frederick Douglass and identity-aware liberalism, as expressed through his autobiographies.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
It is not enough to say that my mother and father do not want to write their autobiographies.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
