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Synonyms for biographer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : bahy-og-ruh-fer, bee-
Phonetic Transcription : baɪˈɒg rə fər, bi-

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Définition of biographer

Origin :
  • 1715; see biography + -er (1). Earlier was biographist (1660s).
  • Of every great and eminent character, part breaks forth into public view, and part lies hid in domestic privacy. Those qualities which have been exerted in any known and lasting performances may, at any distance of time, be traced and estimated; but silent excellencies are soon forgotten; and those minute peculiarities which discriminate every man from all others, if the are not recorded by those whom personal knowledge enabled to observe them, are irrecoverably lost. [Johnson, "Life of Sir Thomas Browne," 1756]
  • As in author : noun composer of written work
  • As in writer : noun person who composes with language
  • As in interpreter : noun translator
  • As in storyteller : noun author
Example sentences :
  • He wrote for humanity, as his biographer justly says, not for fame.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Dignity and respectability have ruined alike the historian and the biographer.
  • Extract from : « James Boswell » by William Keith Leask
  • So early had Boswell made his resolve to be the biographer of Johnson.
  • Extract from : « James Boswell » by William Keith Leask
  • They are worthy of the biographer who has now well grouped and described these creatures.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
  • Horace Traubel will be remembered, as he wished to be remembered, as the biographer of Whitman.
  • Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley
  • His biographer credits him with one hundred and thirty-three.
  • Extract from : « A Popular History of the Art of Music » by W. S. B. Mathews
  • Not least among them that of her biographer, Mr. Harness himself, who was so valued by his friends.
  • Extract from : « Our Village » by Mary Russell Mitford
  • But here again my aim is neither that of the commentator nor that of the biographer.
  • Extract from : « The Preacher and His Models » by James Stalker
  • The one defect acknowledged by his biographer was his partiality for women.
  • Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
  • Romancist and biographer are one as we study the picture line by line.
  • Extract from : « Southern Literature From 1579-1895 » by Louise Manly

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