biography (noun)
21leavening — noun 1. an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something (Freq. 1) his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor • Syn: ↑leaven • Hypernyms: ↑imponderable 2. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid …
22hagiography — noun Date: 1821 1. biography of saints or venerated persons 2. idealizing or idolizing biography …
23pathography — noun Date: 1917 biography that focuses on a person s illnesses, misfortunes, or failures; also sensational or morbid biography …
24fictography — noun A fictionalized biography; a biography written about a fictional character. For example, written by but presented as being written by Lemuel Gulliver, the novels main character …
25biographee — noun One about whom a biography is written; the subject of a biography …
26pathography — noun a) A biography that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the persons life. b) A biography by a physician exploring the effects a disease may have had on a persons life …
27autobiography — noun A self written biography; the story of ones own life. Syn: memoir See Also: biography …
28Carl Sandburg — noun United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878 1967) • Syn: ↑Sandburg • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author * * * Carl Sandburg [ …
29Trevelyan — noun 1. English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876 1962) • Syn: ↑George Macaulay Trevelyan • Instance Hypernyms: ↑historian, ↑historiographer 2.… …
30apposition — noun Date: 15th century 1. a. a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence (as the poet and Burns in “a biography of the poet Bur …
