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Etymology
auto- + biography
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autobiography (countable and uncountable , plural autobiographies )
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 .
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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 zyun6-2 ) , 自传 ( zi6 zyun6-2 )
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)
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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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