Dictionary

biographer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree 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 Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English biographer From biography + -er.

Meanings

1. The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
   • Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me." 1910 April 22, “Mark Twain is Dead at 74”, in The New York Times:
   • In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.' 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 33:

Forms

Deriveds

psychobiographer · autobiographer

Translations (41)

pl biograf (the writer of a biography) · pl biografka (the writer of a biography) · ga beathaisnéisí (the writer of a biography) · sq biograf (the writer of a biography) · ro biograf (the writer of a biography) · bg животописец (the writer of a biography) · oc biograf (the writer of a biography) · fr biographe (the writer of a biography) · ast biógrafu (the writer of a biography) · bg биограф (the writer of a biography) · eo biografo (the writer of a biography) · de Biograf (the writer of a biography) · bg биографка (the writer of a biography) · mi kaituhi haurongo (the writer of a biography) · es biógrafa (the writer of a biography) · nl biograaf (the writer of a biography) · hu biográfus (the writer of a biography) · hu életrajzíró (the writer of a biography) · be біёграф (the writer of a biography) · pt biógrafo (the writer of a biography) · cmn 傳記作家 /传记作家 (the writer of a biography) · cs životopisec (the writer of a biography) · nb biograf (the writer of a biography) · ro biografă (the writer of a biography) · cs biograf (the writer of a biography) · hy կենսագիր (the writer of a biography) · th นักเขียนชีวประวัติ (the writer of a biography) · cmn 傳記作者 /传记作者 (the writer of a biography) · mk биогра́ф (the writer of a biography) · es biógrafo (the writer of a biography) · gl biógrafo (the writer of a biography) · mk животописец (the writer of a biography) · nn biograf (the writer of a biography) · ru био́граф (the writer of a biography) · fi elämäkerran kirjoittaja (the writer of a biography) · fi elämäkerturi (the writer of a biography) · it biografo (the writer of a biography) · sv levnadstecknare (the writer of a biography) · uk біо́граф (the writer of a biography) · ca biògraf (the writer of a biography) · el βιογράφος (the writer of a biography)