biograph

American  

[bahy-oh-graf] / ˈbaɪ oʊˌgræf /

verb (used with object)

1. to write a biography or short biographical sketch of.

   He has obtained numerous awards and distinctions and has been biographed in Canadian Who's Who.

   Her aunt was the writer who biographed Queen Victoria, among others.

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noun

1. a biography or short biographical sketch of a person.

   If you've never read a biograph of Napoleon, don’t start with this one—too many historical errors.

   This jazz opera serves as an engaging audio biograph of her music and her life.

Etymology

Origin of biograph

First recorded in 1770–80; bio- ( def. ) + -graph ( def. )

Example Sentences

Two scenic films and two biograph comedies and the specialists’ singing completed the opening night.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2016

The result is a rare pictorial biograph that shuttles between serious analysis and pure nonsense.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is like an exhibition of the biograph, in which the scenes depicted go by at such a racing speed that it is difficult for the eye to follow them.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

Because we have not been able to send speakers there, and the Plutocrats wrecked the train which was conveying the biograph pictures.

From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Adams, Francis A.

Basil took us all to a biograph theatre—the first one I ever saw—and one set of pictures was labelled, 'A Gretna Green Wedding of the Olden Days.'

From The Heather-Moon by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)