/ baɪˈɒgrəfi; NAmE -ˈɑːg-/ noun
[ C , U ] ( pl. -ies ) the story of a person's life written by sb else; this type of writing :
Boswell's biography of Johnson
—compare autobiography
► bio·graph·ic·al / ˌbaɪəˈgræfɪkl; NAmE / adjective
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WORD ORIGIN
late 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia , from medieval Greek , from bios life + -graphia writing.