biography

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

biog·raphy [biography biographies] BrE [baɪˈɒɡrəfi] NAmE [baɪˈɑːɡrəfi] noun countable, uncountable (pl. biog·raphies)
the story of a person's life written by sb else; this type of writing
•Boswell's biography of Johnson
compare ↑autobiography
Derived Word: ↑biographical

Word Origin:
late 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.

Example Bank:
•The book gives potted biographies of all the major painters.
•a biography by Antonia Fraser
•a biography of the former president
•a biography of the prime minister

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  life, life story, life history