Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autobiography

/ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables: au-to-bi-og-ra-phy
IPA: /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

Countable

noun

Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew Proto-Indo-European *tó- Proto-Hellenic *autós Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón) Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor. English auto- Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía) Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der. New Latin biographiabor. English biography English autobiography From auto- + biography.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/

Usage

Inflected Forms

autobiographies (plural)

Derived Forms

autobiografiction autobiografictional autobiographer autobiographical autobiographically autobiographism autofiction semiautobiography

Phrases

pseudo-autobiography

Frequently Paired Words

biography

Synonyms

memoir life story

Antonyms

heterobiography

Rhymes With

photography geography biography bibliography pornography choreography topography cinematography typography chromatography iconography oceanography

Questions

How do you pronounce autobiography?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/.
What does autobiography mean?: A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
Where does autobiography come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew Proto-Indo-European *tó- Proto-Hellenic *autós Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón) Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor. English auto- Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía) Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der. New Latin biographiabor. English biography English autobiography From auto- + biography.

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