biography (noun)

  • 71Elizabeth Gaskell — noun English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810 1865) • Syn: ↑Gaskell, ↑Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …

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  • 72Gaskell — noun English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810 1865) • Syn: ↑Elizabeth Gaskell, ↑Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …

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  • 73George Macaulay Trevelyan — noun 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: ↑Trevelyan • Instance Hypernyms: ↑historian, ↑historiographer …

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  • 74George Otto Trevelyan — noun English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838 1928) • Syn: ↑Trevelyan, ↑Sir George Otto Trevelyan • Instance Hypernyms: ↑historian, ↑historiographer …

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  • 75hagiographist — noun the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography • Syn: ↑hagiographer, ↑hagiologist • Derivationally related forms: ↑hagiography (for: ↑hagiographer) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 76hagiologist — noun the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography • Syn: ↑hagiographer, ↑hagiographist • Derivationally related forms: ↑hagiography (for: ↑hagiographer) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 77James Boswell — noun Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740 1795) • Syn: ↑Boswell • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author * * * James Boswell [James Boswell …

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  • 78Lytton Strachey — noun English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880 1932) • Syn: ↑Strachey, ↑Giles Lytton Strachey • Instance Hypernyms: ↑biographer • Member Holonyms: ↑Bloomsbury Group * * * …

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  • 79Parallel Lives — noun a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays • Instance Hypernyms: ↑biography, ↑life, ↑life story, ↑life history …

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  • 80Sandburg — noun United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878 1967) • Syn: ↑Carl Sandburg • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …

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