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AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Definition: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Plural

1. Of Autobiography

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AUTOBIOGRAPHIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)


Crosswords: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Etymologies containing "AUTOBIOGRAPHIES": Autobiography. (references)

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Commercial Usage: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) (reference)

  • Autobiographies (reference)

  • Classic American Autobiographies: Mary Rowlandson/Benjamin Franklin/Frederick Douglass/Mark Twain/Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin/5 Autobiographies In) (reference)

  • Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Library of America) (reference)

  • Grace Abounding With Other Spiritual Autobiographies (Oxford World's Classic) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

AuthorQuotation

John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

"AUTOBIOGRAPHIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.59% of the time. "AUTOBIOGRAPHIES" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)98.59%7039,981
Noun (proper)1.41%1339,140
                    Total100.00%71N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Language Translations for "AUTOBIOGRAPHIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(Autobiography, Biographic, Biographical). (various references)

   

German

  

Autobiographien. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자서 (Autobiographic, Autobiographical, Autobiography). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

autobiographiesay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "AUTOBIOGRAPHIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "AUTOBIOGRAPHIES" (pronounced ô'tubīÄ"grufēz)
9-b ī Ä" g r u f ē zbiographies.
7-Ä" g r u f ē zbibliographies.
5-r u f ē zcatastrophes.
4-u f ē zphilosophies.
3-f ē zcoffees, trophies.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-h-i-i-o-o-p-r-s-t-u"

-3 letters: autographies.

-4 letters: agoraphobes, biographies.

-5 letters: agoraphobe, autographs, euphorbias, obituaries.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-h-i-i-o-o-p-r-s-t-u"
 

+5 letters: semiautobiographical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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