Autobiography

Noun CEFR C1

ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Españolautobiografía

Françaisautobiographie

DeutschAutobiografie Lebenserinnerungen Selbstbiographie

38 more languages

العربيةالسّيرة الذّاتيّة سيرة ذاتية

Българскиавтобиография

Bosanskiautobiografija аутобиографија

Catalàautobiografia

Češtinaautobiografie vlastní životopis

Cymraeghunangofiant

Danskselvbiografi

Ελληνικάαπομνημόνευμα αυτοβιογραφία

Esperantoaŭtobiografio membiografio

فارسیحسب‌حال

Suomiomaelämäkerta

Gaeilgedírbheathaisnéis

Galegoautobiografía

עבריתאוטוביוגרפיה

हिन्दीआत्मकथा आपबीती

Hrvatskiautobiografija аутобиографија

Magyarönéletrajz

Հայերենինքնակենսագրություն

Bahasa Indonesiaautobiografi

Italianoautobiografia

日本語自伝自叙伝

ქართულიავტობიოგრაფია

한국어자서전

Lietuviųautobiografija

Македонскиавтобиографија

Nederlandsautobiografie

Polskiautobiografia

Portuguêsautobiografia

Românăautobiografie

Русскийавтобиография

Српскиautobiografija аутобиографија

Svenskasjälvbiografi

Kiswahilitarijama

ไทยอัตชีวประวัติ

Tagalogawtobiyograpiya saribuhay

Türkçeotobiyografi

Українськаавтобіографія

Tiếng Việttự truyện

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

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

See all C1 English words →

See also

autobioluminescence autobiopic autobiotinylation autoblanking autoblock autoboat

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free