"autobiography" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-autobiography.ogg [US] Forms: autobiographies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi Etymology: auto- + biography Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|auto|biography|id1=self}} auto- + biography Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} autobiography (countable and uncountable, plural autobiographies)
  1. (countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Literary genres Translations (biography of oneself): autobiografi (Albanian), سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّة (alt: sīra(t) ḏātiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), ինքնակենսագրություն (inkʿnakensagrutʿyun) (Armenian), autobiografía [feminine] (Asturian), аўтабіягра́фія (aŭtabijahráfija) [feminine] (Belarusian), автобиогра́фия (avtobiográfija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), autobiografia [feminine] (Catalan), 自傳 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 自传 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 自傳 (Chinese Cantonese), 自传 (alt: zi⁶ zyun⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 自傳 (Chinese Mandarin), 自传 (zìzhuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), vlastní životopis [masculine] (Czech), autobiografie [feminine] (Czech), selvbiografi [common-gender] (Danish), autobiografie [feminine] (Dutch), aŭtobiografio (Esperanto), membiografio (Esperanto), sjálvsævisøga [feminine] (Faroese), omaelämäkerta (Finnish), autobiographie [feminine] (French), autobiografía [feminine] (Galician), ავტობიოგრაფია (avṭobiograpia) (Georgian), Autobiografie [feminine] (German), Selbstbiographie [feminine] (German), Lebenserinnerungen [feminine, plural] (German), αυτοβιογραφία (aftoviografía) [feminine] (Greek), אוטוביוגרפיה (ot'obiografia) [feminine] (Hebrew), आत्मकथा (ātmakathā) [feminine] (Hindi), आपबीती (āpbītī) [feminine] (Hindi), önéletrajz (Hungarian), autobiografi (Indonesian), dírbheathaisnéis [feminine] (Irish), autobiografia [feminine] (Italian), 自伝 (jiden) (alt: じでん) (Japanese), 自叙伝 (jijoden) (Japanese), 자서전 (jaseojeon) (Korean), autobiogrāfija [feminine] (Latvian), autobiografija [feminine] (Lithuanian), автобиографија (avtobiografija) [feminine] (Macedonian), awtobijografija (Maltese), haukiri (Maori), selvbiografi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sjølvbiografi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), حسبحال (hasb-e-hâl) (Persian), autobiografia [feminine] (Polish), autobiografia [feminine] (Portuguese), autobiografie (Romanian), автобиогра́фия (avtobiográfija) [feminine] (Russian), аутобиографија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), autobiografija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), vlastný životopis [masculine] (Slovak), autobiografía [feminine] (Spanish), tarijama (Swahili), självbiografi [common-gender] (Swedish), saribuhay (Tagalog), อัตชีวประวัติ (Thai), otobiyografi (Turkish), özyaşamöyküsü (Turkish), автобіогра́фія (avtobiohráfija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), awtobiografija [feminine] (Upper Sorbian), hunangofiant [masculine] (Welsh), אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע (oytobyografye) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-autobiography-en-noun-iSxJXhqG Disambiguation of Literary genres: 61 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with auto- (self) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with auto- (self): 90 10 Disambiguation of 'biography of oneself': 75 25
  2. (uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-autobiography-en-noun-dpFfrNWB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: memoir, life story Hypernyms: biography Derived forms: autobiographical, autobiographically, pseudo-autobiography Related terms: biography

Inflected forms

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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
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          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "ავტობიოგრაფია"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
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          "word": "Lebenserinnerungen"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aftoviografía",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "αυτοβιογραφία"
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "ot'obiografia",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "אוטוביוגרפיה"
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "ātmakathā",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "आत्मकथा"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "āpbītī",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "आपबीती"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "önéletrajz"
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          "lang": "Indonesian",
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        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dírbheathaisnéis"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "alt": "じでん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "jiden",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "自伝"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "jijoden",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "自叙伝"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jaseojeon",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "자서전"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "autobiogrāfija"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "autobiografija"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "avtobiografija",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "автобиографија"
        },
        {
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          "code": "mt",
          "lang": "Maltese",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "awtobijografija"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "haukiri"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
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        },
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          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "sjølvbiografi"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "hasb-e-hâl",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "حسبحال"
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          "sense": "biography of oneself",
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          "sense": "biography of oneself",
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        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "avtobiográfija",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "автобиогра́фия"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "аутобиографија"
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          "sense": "biography of oneself",
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          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "vlastný životopis"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
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          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "tarijama"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "självbiografi"
        },
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          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "saribuhay"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "อัตชีวประวัติ"
        },
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          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "otobiyografi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "word": "özyaşamöyküsü"
        },
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "avtobiohráfija",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "автобіогра́фія"
        },
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hunangofiant"
        },
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          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "oytobyografye",
          "sense": "biography of oneself",
          "tags": [
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "autobiografi"
    },
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      "alt": "sīra(t) ḏātiyya",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "سِيرَة ذَاتِيَّة"
    },
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "ինքնակենսագրություն"
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografía"
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "аўтабіягра́фія"
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      "roman": "avtobiográfija",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "автобиогра́фия"
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografia"
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      "code": "yue",
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "自傳"
    },
    {
      "alt": "zi⁶ zyun⁶⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "自传"
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      "word": "自傳"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vlastní životopis"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "autobiografie"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografie"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "aŭtobiografio"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "membiografio"
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      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sjálvsævisøga"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "omaelämäkerta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiographie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "autobiografía"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "avṭobiograpia",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "ავტობიოგრაფია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Autobiografie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Selbstbiographie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Lebenserinnerungen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aftoviografía",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αυτοβιογραφία"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ot'obiografia",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אוטוביוגרפיה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ātmakathā",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "आत्मकथा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "āpbītī",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "आपबीती"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "önéletrajz"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "autobiografi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dírbheathaisnéis"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じでん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jiden",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "自伝"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jijoden",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "自叙伝"
    },
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jaseojeon",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "자서전"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiogrāfija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografija"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "avtobiografija",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "автобиографија"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "awtobijografija"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "haukiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "selvbiografi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sjølvbiografi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "hasb-e-hâl",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "حسبحال"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "autobiografie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtobiográfija",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "автобиогра́фия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "аутобиографија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografija"
    },
    {
      "code": "hsb",
      "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "awtobiografija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vlastný životopis"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autobiografía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "tarijama"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "självbiografi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "saribuhay"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "อัตชีวประวัติ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "otobiyografi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "word": "özyaşamöyküsü"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "avtobiohráfija",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "автобіогра́фія"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hunangofiant"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "oytobyografye",
      "sense": "biography of oneself",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע"
    }
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