autobiography

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ biography

Pronunciation

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Noun

autobiography (countable and uncountable, plural autobiographies)

1. A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
   • Samuel Clemens

     Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:

     Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography.

Synonyms

• memoir
• life story

Antonyms

• heterobiography

Hypernyms

• biography

Derived terms

• autobiographical, autobiographically

Related terms

• biography

Translations

biography of oneself

• Albanian: autobiografi (sq)
• Arabic: سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّة f (sīra(t) ḏātiyya)
• Armenian: ինքնակենսագրություն (hy) (inkʻnakensagrutʻyun)
• Asturian: autobiografía f
• Bulgarian: автобиогра́фия (bg) f (avtobiográfija)
• Catalan: autobiografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 自傳／自传 (zi⁶ zyun^6-2), 自传 (zi⁶ zyun^6-2)

  Mandarin: 自傳／自传 (zh) (zìzhuàn), 自传 (zh) (zìzhuàn)

  Min Nan: 自傳／自传 (zh-min-nan), 自传 (chū-toān)

• Czech: vlastní životopis m, autobiografie (cs) f
• Danish: selvbiografi c
• Dutch: autobiografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: aŭtobiografio, membiografio
• Faroese: sjálvsævisøga f
• Finnish: omaelämäkerta (fi)
• French: autobiographie (fr) f
• Galician: autobiografía (gl) f
• German: Autobiografie (de) f, Selbstbiographie f, Lebenserinnerungen f pl
• Greek: αυτοβιογραφία (el) f (aftoviografía)
• Hebrew: אוטוביוגרפיה f (ot'obiografia)
• Hindi: आत्मकथा (hi) f (ātmakthā)
• Hungarian: önéletrajz (hu)
• Indonesian: autobiografi (id)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: dírbheathaisnéis f
• Italian: autobiografia (it) f
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• Japanese: 自伝 (じでん, jiden), 自叙伝 (jijoden)
• Korean: 자서전 (ko) (jaseojeon)
• Latvian: autobiogrāfija f
• Lithuanian: autobiografija f
• Macedonian: автобиографија f (avtobiografija)
• Maltese: awtobijografija
• Maori: haukiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvbiografi m

  Nynorsk: sjølvbiografi m

• Persian: حسب‌حال (hasb-e-hâl)
• Polish: autobiografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: autobiografia (pt) f
• Romanian: autobiografie (ro)
• Russian: автобиогра́фия (ru) f (avtobiográfija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аутобиографија f

  Roman: autobiografija (sh) f

• Slovak: vlastný životopis m
• Spanish: autobiografía (es) f
• Swedish: självbiografi (sv) c
• Tagalog: saribuhay
• Thai: อัตชีวประวัติ (th)
• Turkish: otobiyografi (tr), özyaşamöyküsü
• Ukrainian: автобіогра́фія (uk) f (avtobiohráfija)
• Yiddish: אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע f (oytobyografye)

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