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autobiographical

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au·to·bi·og·ra·phy  (ôt-b-gr-f)
n. pl. au·to·bi·og·ra·phies
The biography of a person written by that person.
auto·bi·ogra·pher n.
auto·bio·graphic (-b-grfk), auto·bio·graphi·cal adj.
auto·bio·graphi·cal·ly adv.
autobiographical [ˌɔːtəˌbaɪəˈgræfɪkəl]
adj
1. of or concerned with one's own life
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) of or relating to an autobiography
autobiographically  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.autobiographical - of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer; "he seldom suppressed his autobiographical tendencies"
autobiographic
2.autobiographical - relating to or in the style of an autobiography; "they compiled an autobiographical history of the movement"
autobiographic
Translations
autobiographical [ˈɔːtəʊˌbaɪəʊˈgræfɪkəl] ADJ → autobiográfico
autobiographical [ˌɔːtəʊbaɪəˈgræfɪkəl] adj [novel] → autobiographique
autobiographical
adj → autobiografisch


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Departing this life as Admiral of the Fleet on the eve of the Crimean War, Sir Thomas Byam Martin has recorded for us amongst his all too short autobiographical notes these few characteristic words uttered by one young man of the many who must have felt that particular inconvenience of a heroic age.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
His other autobiographical works are MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM and LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, published in 1855 and 1881 respectively.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
De Quincey was hardly less autobiographical when he wrote of Kant, or the Flight of the Crim-Tartars, than when he wrote of his own boyhood or the miseries of the opium habit.
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