adj
Meaning 1
of or relating to an account of a person's life
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
biographical
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˌbaɪ.əˈɡɹæf.ɪ.kəl/
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CMU ARPABET: B AY2 AH0 G R AE1 F IH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective
Meaning 2
of or relating to or being biography
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- biographical data
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: biographic
Antonyms: none provided
History
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 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 *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English biographical From biography + -ical.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: կենսագրական (kensagrakan) — relating to an account of a person's life
- Asturian: biográficu — relating to an account of a person's life
- Catalan: biogràfic — relating to an account of a person's life
- Czech: životopisný — relating to an account of a person's life
- Czech: biografický — relating to an account of a person's life
- Dutch: biografisch — relating to an account of a person's life
- Finnish: elämäkerrallinen — relating to an account of a person's life
- French: biographique — relating to an account of a person's life
- Galician: biográfico — relating to an account of a person's life
- Georgian: ბიოგრაფიული (biograpiuli) — relating to an account of a person's life
- German: biographisch — relating to an account of a person's life
- German: biografisch — relating to an account of a person's life
- Irish: beathaisnéiseach — relating to an account of a person's life
- Italian: biografico — relating to an account of a person's life
- Korean: 전기의 (jeon'giui) — relating to an account of a person's life
- Latin: biographicus — relating to an account of a person's life
- Macedonian: биогра́фски (biográfski) — relating to an account of a person's life
- Norwegian Bokmål: biografisk — relating to an account of a person's life
- Norwegian Nynorsk: biografisk — relating to an account of a person's life
- Polish: biograficzny — relating to an account of a person's life
- Portuguese: biográfico — relating to an account of a person's life
- Romanian: biografic — relating to an account of a person's life
- Russian: биографи́ческий (biografíčeskij) — relating to an account of a person's life
- Serbo-Croatian: био̀графскӣ — relating to an account of a person's life
- Serbo-Croatian: biògrafskī — relating to an account of a person's life
- Spanish: biográfico — relating to an account of a person's life
- Ukrainian: біографічний (biohrafičnyj) — relating to an account of a person's life
- Welsh: bywgraffiadol — relating to an account of a person's life
- Welsh: bywgraffyddol — relating to an account of a person's life
- Welsh: cofiannol — relating to an account of a person's life
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