From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing, History, Literaturebiographybi‧og‧ra‧phy /baɪˈɒɡrəfi $ -ˈɑːɡ-/●くろまる●くろまる○しろまる noun (plural biographies)1[countable]TCNSH a book that tells what has happened in someone’s life, written by someone elsebiography ofBoswell’s biography of Samuel Johnson► see thesaurus at book2[uncountable]ALliterature that consists of biographies → autobiography —biographical /ˌbaɪəˈɡræfɪkəl◂/ adjectivebiographical informationExamples from the Corpusbiography• She's the author of three acclaimedbiographies.• 'Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now' is an authorizedbiography of the former Beatle by Barry Miles.• Moralcareers, as we have seen, are lives organised around exemplarybiographies.• But Wyler is barely more visible in his biography than in his films.• She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973.• No biographies have been written about him, and none ever will be.• Plowing through this masterpiece of biography, he was haunted by a question.• This is a competent and well-researched biography.• Boswell's biography of Dr Johnson• Odo's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practicalvirtues.• At first, these biographies were simply invented.• He has slammed an unauthorised biography which he claims contains 'factualerrors'.• The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.Originbiography(1600-1700)Late Greekbiographia, from Greekbio- ( → BIO-) + -graphia"-graphy"