AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autobiography mean? 

• AUTOBIOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun AUTOBIOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. a biography of yourself

  Familiarity information: AUTOBIOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOBIOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biography of yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("autobiography" is a kind of...):

biography; life; life history; life story (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)

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

memoir (an account of the author's personal experiences)

Derivation:

autobiographer (someone who writes their own biography)

autobiographical (relating to or in the style of an autobiography)

autobiographical (of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer)

 Context examples 

But this is not to be a regular autobiography.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)