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# biography

«biography» in Mova's school dictionary: **A true book or story about a real person's life, written…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a biography, biographies); adjective biographical

### meaning for a pupil

1) A true book or story about a real person's life, written by someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#m1)

2) A short description of a person's life, such as on a website or book cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English and history lessons pupils read and write biographies of famous people like Mary Seacole or Martin Luther King. A biography is non-fiction, so it should use facts, dates and order of events. Phrases: "write a biography", "a biography of", "a short biography".

### examples

- We wrote a biography of Florence Nightingale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#x1)
- A biography tells a real person's life story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#x2)
- The library has a whole shelf of sports biographies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#x3)
- My biography of Grandma includes her move to Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#x4)
- A good biography uses facts and dates in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#x5)
- The author's short biography is on the back cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#x6)
- These biographies are written with kindly justice, and form a valuable contribution to the history of the reign of the Roi Soleil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/#x7)

### note

Plural: biographies (y changes to ies). A story you write about your own life is an "autobiography", not a biography. Writers of biographies are "biographers".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «biography» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biography/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.