autobiography.

An account of the author’s own life.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• write an autobiography
• autobiographical account

On the page

The autobiography described the decision from the author’s later perspective.

The reviewer compared the autobiography with contemporary records.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Singular autobiography; plural autobiographies. Also uncountable for the literary form. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: artistic orientation, figurative interpretation, life writing, narrative knowledge. Disciplines: literary writing, literary analysis, advanced general English. Commonness: moderately common.