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