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LIFE STORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does life story mean?
• LIFE STORY (noun)
The noun LIFE STORY has 1 sense:
1. an account of the series of events making up a person's life
Familiarity information: LIFE STORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An account of the series of events making up a person's life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
biography; life; life history; life story
Hypernyms ("life story" is a kind of...):
account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "life story"):
autobiography (a biography of yourself)
hagiography (a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint))
profile (biographical sketch)
Instance hyponyms:
Parallel Lives (a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays)
Context examples
Mobile phones are not made for you to tell your life story on.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
You are tired of telling potential love interests your life story.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You don’t want to tell your life story to many new dates—you seem ready to settle down.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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