Definition of Life story

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

Exact synonyms: Biography, Life, Life History
Generic synonyms: Account, Chronicle, History, Story
Specialized synonyms: Autobiography, Hagiography, Profile
Specialized synonyms: Parallel Lives
Derivative terms: Biographer, Biographical

Definition of Life story

1. Noun. An account of an individual's life ¹

2. Noun. (by extension) A long detailed monologue to someone ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Life Story

life peer
life preserver
life preservers
life principle
life raft
life ring
life rings
life savings
life science
life sciences
life scientist
life sentence
life sentences
life span
life stance
life story (current term)
life stress
life style
life support
life support care
life support system
life support systems
life table
life tables
life tenant
life tenants
life vest
life vests
life zone
lifebelt

Literary usage of Life story

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and by John Foster Kirk, Samuel Austin Allibone (1891)
"... Life-Story, Lon., 1886, p. Svo. 9. Diamond« in Darkness : a Christmas Story, Lon., ... LifeStory ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"$1.50 A novel in which the life story of the heroine, friends after her death. ... M. $2 life story of a girl brought up in New York's ide who fo trade THE ..."

3. William Cotton Oswell, Hunter and Explorer: The Story of His Life, with by William Edward Oswell, David Livingstone (1900)
"... reached—A royal reception—An all-night sitting— The chief tells his life-story ; wars, cannibalism ..."

4. The Rites of the Twice-born by Sinclair Stevenson (1920)
"PART I THE life story OF A BRAHMAN CHAPTER I BIRTH AND BABYHOOD Precautions — Preparations — Remedies — Telling the Good News — Only a Girl— In the ..."

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