{
    "term": "biography",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the story of a person’s life written by somebody else; this type of writing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Boswell’s biography of Johnson"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a biography by Antonia Fraser"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book gives potted biographies of all the major painters."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["authorized", "official", "unauthorized"],
                "verb + biography": ["work on", "write", "produce"],
                "preposition": ["biography by", "biography of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/baɪˈɒɡrəfi/",
                "audio": "bi/biography/biography__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/baɪˈɑːɡrəfi/",
                "audio": "bi/biography/biography__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’."
}