- an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
au•to•bi•og•ra•phy /ˌɔtəbaɪˈɑgrəfi/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. -phies.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Literaturea history of a person's life written or told by that person.
au•to•bi•og•ra•phy
(ô′tə bī og′rə fē, -bē-, ô′tō-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -phies.
au′to•bi•og′ra•pher, n.
- Literaturea history of a person's life written or told by that person.
- auto-1 + biography 1790–1800
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autobiography /ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ; ˌɔːtəbaɪ-/ n ( pl -phies)
'autobiography' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Adams
- Augustine
- auto-
- autobiographical
- Cellini
- Davies
- Frame
- Graves
- Harris
- Haydon
- Herzen
- Kempe
- Merton
- Newman
- Rutherford
- Stein
- Teresa
- Thérèse de Lisieux
- Zuckerman
- Apologia pro Vita Sua
- autobio
- autobiog
- Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The
- disinter
- gut
- lay
- Mein Kampf
- memoir
- or
- self-revealing