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bio en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbaɪəʊ/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbaɪoʊ/ (US)

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of biography.
    alt of biography
    • Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?). 2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide:
  2. (qualifier:social media) A short section of a user profile that contains information about the user, especially one which can be customised; the about me section.
    • To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.
    • Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past. 2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter:
    • She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube. 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:
  3. A biographical sketch.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of biology.
    alt of biology
    • I've got a bio exam in the morning.
    • It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us. 2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian:
  5. (South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
    alt of bioscope
    • Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio. 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31:

Forms

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Synonyms

biopage

Translations (1)

pl biogram (biographical sketch)