Meanings
nounautobiography (countable and uncountable, plural autobiographies)
plural autobiographies
- countableA self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
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 […]
1904, Mark Twain, “To W. D. Howells, in New York: Villa di Quarto, Florence, March 14, ’04”, in Albert Bigelow Paine, editor, Mark Twain's Letters, volume 2, published 1917, page 7511 more example
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.
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
- Proto-Indo-European*tó-
- Proto-Hellenic*autós
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
- Ancient Greekαὖ (aû)
- Ancient Greekτόν (tón)
- Ancient Greekαὐτός (autós)
- Ancient Greekαὐτο- (auto-)
- Englishauto-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
- Ancient Greekβίος (bíos)
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
- Ancient Greekγραφή (graphḗ)
- Ancient Greekβιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)
- New Latinbiographia
- Englishbiography
- Englishautobiography
Translations
Arabic سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّة
- سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّةbiography of oneself
Bulgarian автобиогра́фия
- автобиогра́фия (avtobiográfija)biography of oneself
Catalan autobiografia
- autobiografiabiography of oneself
Chinese Cantonese 自傳 /自传
- 自傳 /自传biography of oneself
Chinese Mandarin 自傳 /自传
- 自傳 /自传 (zìzhuàn)biography of oneself
Czech vlastní životopis, autobiografie
- vlastní životopisbiography of oneself
- autobiografiebiography of oneself
Danish selvbiografi
- selvbiografibiography of oneself
Dutch autobiografie
- autobiografiebiography of oneself
Esperanto aŭtobiografio, membiografio
- aŭtobiografiobiography of oneself
- membiografiobiography of oneself
Finnish omaelämäkerta
- omaelämäkertabiography of oneself
French autobiographie
- autobiographiebiography of oneself
German Autobiografie, Selbstbiographie
- Autobiografiebiography of oneself
- Selbstbiographiebiography of oneself
- Lebenserinnerungenbiography of oneself
Greek αυτοβιογραφία
- αυτοβιογραφία (aftoviografía)biography of oneself
Hebrew אוטוביוגרפיה
- אוטוביוגרפיה (ot'obiografia)biography of oneself
Hindi आत्मकथा, आपबीती
- आत्मकथा (ātmakathā)biography of oneself
- आपबीती (āpbītī)biography of oneself
Hungarian önéletrajz
- önéletrajzbiography of oneself
Indonesian autobiografi
- autobiografibiography of oneself
Irish dírbheathaisnéis
- dírbheathaisnéisbiography of oneself
Italian autobiografia
- autobiografiabiography of oneself
Japanese 自伝, 自叙伝
- 自伝 (jiden)biography of oneself
- 自叙伝 (jijoden)biography of oneself
Korean 자서전
- 자서전 (jaseojeon)biography of oneself
Latvian autobiogrāfija
- autobiogrāfijabiography of oneself
Lithuanian autobiografija
- autobiografijabiography of oneself
Māori haukiri
- haukiribiography of oneself
Norwegian Bokmål selvbiografi
- selvbiografibiography of oneself
Persian حسبحال
- حسبحال (hasb-e-hâl)biography of oneself
Polish autobiografia
- autobiografiabiography of oneself
Portuguese autobiografia
- autobiografiabiography of oneself
Romanian autobiografie
- autobiografiebiography of oneself
Russian автобиогра́фия
- автобиогра́фия (avtobiográfija)biography of oneself
Slovak vlastný životopis
- vlastný životopisbiography of oneself
Spanish autobiografía
- autobiografíabiography of oneself
Swahili tarijama
- tarijamabiography of oneself
Swedish självbiografi
- självbiografibiography of oneself
Tagalog awtobiyograpiya, saribuhay
- awtobiyograpiyabiography of oneself
- saribuhaybiography of oneself
Tamil தன்வரலாறு, சுயசரிதை
- தன்வரலாறு (taṉvaralāṟu)biography of oneself
- சுயசரிதை (cuyacaritai)biography of oneself
Thai อัตชีวประวัติ
- อัตชีวประวัติbiography of oneself
Turkish otobiyografi, özyaşamöyküsü
- otobiyografibiography of oneself
- özyaşamöyküsübiography of oneself
Ukrainian автобіогра́фія
- автобіогра́фія (avtobiohráfija)biography of oneself
Vietnamese tự truyện
- tự truyệnbiography of oneself
Welsh hunangofiant
- hunangofiantbiography of oneself
Yiddish אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע
- אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע (oytobyografye)biography of oneself
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with autobiography
photographybiographygeographybibliographypornographyfilmographydiscographychromatographycryptographytopographyradiographytomographyoceanographytypographychoreographymammographycinematographyvideographycartographydemographyangiographylithographycrystallographyechocardiography
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
autobiography. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autobiography
MLA
“autobiography.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autobiography. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autobiography,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autobiography.
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