Synonyms for biography
baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi-bi·og·ra·phy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.4 / 20 votes

1. biography

   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, autobiography, chronicle, history, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, narrative, recital, record, register, story

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 26 votes

1. biography, life, life story, life historynoun

   an account of the series of events making up a person's life

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, spirit, life story, life history, life-time, life, lifespan, liveliness, living, career, aliveness, animation

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1. biographynoun

   Synonyms:
   life, memoir, history of a person's life

2. biographynoun

   Synonyms:
   biographical writings

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1. List of paraphrases for "biography":

   biographies, biographical, bio, sketch, biographer

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1. Dan Goldman:

   The web of lies George Santos used to defraud George Santos voters is a threat to our free and fair elections, and we have an obligation to ensure nothing like this ever happens again, his entire candidacy for Congress was predicated on a campaign of disinformation designed to deceive the voters. George Santos lied about George Santos entire biography and resume, including religion, family history, education, and professional experience. I am proud to join my fellow New York Congressman Ritchie Torres to introduce this critical piece of legislation to safeguard the democratic process.

2. Lytton Strachey:

   Discretion is not the better part of biography.

3. David Kendall:

   This is not a case about the dissemination to the public of classified information, no classified information appeared in the biography. Not a single syllable.

4. Evan Thomas:

   Nixon's paranoia went up a great deal after he lost in 1960, partly because he felt the Kennedys had used dirty tricks to defeat him, he felt the Kennedys were better at dirty tricks than he was in 1960. And he was probably not wrong about that. The Kennedys played hardball. And [his brother] Bobby Kennedy was probably smarter about dirty tricks in 1960 than Richard Nixon was. I say that having written a biography of Bobby Kennedy.

5. Alfred the great:

   There's this guy called Joshua and he knows all about me. I hope he writes my biography, and puts spaceships in it