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Definition of Biographer

1. Noun. Someone who writes an account of a person's life.

Definition of Biographer

1. n. One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

Definition of Biographer

1. Noun. the writer of a biography ¹

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Definition of Biographer

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Biographer

1. One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch. (20 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biographer

Literary usage of Biographer

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This myth was studiously floated by his first biographer, Griswold, and found readier acceptance with the public owing to the weird and horrible character ..."

2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1899)
"His first biographer was the Reverend Thomas Fuller who included the dramatist among his "Worthies of England." In this history, which was published in 1662 ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This novel concept of a dome made of two the architect's second biographer, it was also applied shells greatly relieved the weight of the structure, ..."

4. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1874)
"1 m biographer. He was indeed a man of wonderful quickness of perception, of considerable intellectual nimbleness, of much energy of purpose, ..."

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