Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to autobiography; characterized by an autobiographic tendency.
- Same as
autobiographic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or in the style of an autobiography
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer
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Examples
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Why do you use this common voice, and how autobiographical is the way he lives in, and reacts to, the world?
A Conversation with Arthur Bradford author of Dogwalker 2010
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Based on information supplied in autobiographical and press sources, the book matches events in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, Iraq, and various secret places of detention with provisions in the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements on war crimes.
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I think first person autobiographical is a starting point in writing and that we grow in maturity as we try to see through the eyes of others.
post mortem 2008
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On the inescapably situated politics of subjectivitythe forms and meanings of Iin autobiographical texts more broadly, see Smith and Watson, De/Colonizing the Subject.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The novel has been called autobiographical, which Jacobson agrees with in a sense - like Oliver, Jacobson grew up in Manchester in the 50s, played table tennis, dreamed of being a world champion and mostly failed.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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No matter how aptly presented, these foreboding atmospherics and metaphors have remained by-the-numbers for the adult thriller for decades; and like the stale, recycled charades of today’s politics, they grow tiresome quickly, not overlooking certain autobiographical parallels.
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Ernaux’s reputation rests largely on two books about her parents that are often described as autobiographical novels but resemble high stylized memoirs.
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WARD: "Born to be a Loser" would have been called autobiographical, if Donley had had the insights others had into him.
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It is not about the blog culture so much as an 8,000 word autobiographical tale about her experience in it.
Kimberly Brooks: The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould 2010
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I'm subtitling my autobiographical Star Trek vid "Star Trek, My Love" in Russian today.
365 - 38: Doing My Bit for World Peace Fresca 2009
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