Definizione monolingua

autobiography

autobiography (plural autobiographies)

1. A self-written biography; the story of ones own life.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:

     “You going?” I said, for she had risen. “I cant wait for another minute. I want to fling myself into Reggies arms. If I dont see him soon, I shall pass out.” “I know how you feel. The chap in the Yeomans Wedding Song thought along those same lines, only the way he put it was ‘Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, I hurry along’. At one time I often used to render the number at village concerts, and there was a nasty Bechers Brook to get over when you got to ‘For it is my wedding morning,’ because you had to stretch out the ‘mor’ for about ten minutes, which tested the lung power severely. I remember the vicar once telling me –” Here I was interrupted, as Im so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeomans Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography.

Definizione dizionario autobiography

	autobiografia
	A book about the life of a person written by himself or herself.

Altri significati:

A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

biography of oneself