LIFE HISTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does life history mean? 

• LIFE HISTORY (noun)
  The noun LIFE HISTORY has 2 senses:

1. an account of the series of events making up a person's life

2. the general progression of your working or professional life

  Familiarity information: LIFE HISTORY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIFE HISTORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An account of the series of events making up a person's life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

biography; life; life history; life story

Hypernyms ("life history" is a kind of...):

account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "life history"):

autobiography (a biography of yourself)

hagiography (a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint))

profile (biographical sketch)

Instance hyponyms:

Parallel Lives (a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The general progression of your working or professional life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

career; life history

Context example:

he had a long career in the law

Hypernyms ("life history" is a kind of...):

advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression (the act of moving forward (as toward a goal))

 Context examples 

His life history was written in his heavy features and pompous manner.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The state in which a genetic trait is expressed later in life or is expressed at no fixed time in a life history.

(Late or Variable Onset, NCI Dictionary)