autobiography
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autobiography
- /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ UK
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noun autobiographies
- A self-written biography; the story of one's own life. 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 […]
- Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
Similar: memoir, life story · Opposite: heterobiography
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: biography, memoir, self-help, endogenous, vitae, journal, life story, recollections, reminiscences, diary, testimonial, self-portrait, life history, personal history, confessions, autobiographism
noun
Similar: memoir, life story · Opposite: heterobiography
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noun biography of oneself
| Español | autobiografía |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 자서전 jaseojeon |
| 日本語 | 自伝 jiden, 自叙伝 jijoden |
| 中文 | 自傳 /自传 zìzhuàn |
| हिन्दी | आत्मकथा ātmakathā, आपबीती āpbītī |
| Kiswahili | tarijama |
| Português | autobiografia |
| Français | autobiographie |
| Deutsch | Autobiografie, Selbstbiographie, Lebenserinnerungen |
| Italiano | autobiografia |
| Ελληνικά | αυτοβιογραφία aftoviografía |
| Română | autobiografie |
| Русский | автобиогра́фия avtobiográfija |
| Tiếng Việt | tự truyện |
| العربية | سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّة |
| עברית | אוטוביוגרפיה ot'obiografia |
Talk about this word "autobiography." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/autobiography. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. autobiography. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/autobiography "autobiography." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/autobiography.Cite this
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title = {autobiography},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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