Synonyms for autobiography
ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ-au·to·bi·og·ra·phy

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1. autobiographynoun

   Synonyms:
   memoir

   Antonyms:
   heterobiography

2. autobiographynoun

   A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

   Synonyms:
   memoir

   Antonyms:
   heterobiography

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1. autobiography

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

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   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, biography, chronicle, history, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, narrative, recital, record, register, story

Princeton's WordNet

1. autobiographynoun

   a biography of yourself

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1. List of paraphrases for "autobiography":

   memoir

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How to use autobiography in a sentence?

1. Abraham J. Heschel:

   The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

2. George Orwell:

   An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

3. Lady Bird:

   This feels like autobiography, when you live through a book, it almost becomes the landscape of your inner life. ... It becomes part of you, in a profound way.

4. Samuel Goldwyn:

   I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.

5. Philip Roth:

   I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.