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Meaning of Autobiography | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi

Definitions

  1. A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
  2. Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.

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Examples

“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 […]”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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