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Biographer

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

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Author 76% connected

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

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Writer 76% connected

One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

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Autobiographer 76% connected

One who writers his own life or biography.

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Hagiographer 76% connected

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

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Hagiologist 76% connected

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.

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Biography 74% connected

The written history of a person's life.

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Biography 74% connected

The written history of a person's life.

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Account noun · 78% connection

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of the…

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Adjunct noun · 78% connection

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in i…

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Exemplariness noun · 78% connection

The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example.; "Not so, according to Plutarch: the exemplariness of the Lyc…

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Explore verb · 78% connection

inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for informati…

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Florist noun · 78% connection

One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.

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Hagiology noun · 78% connection

The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.

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Hermit noun · 78% connection

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

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Heteroscian noun · 78% connection

One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because a…

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Historian noun · 78% connection

a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

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Historiographer noun · 78% connection

An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governme…

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History noun · 78% connection

A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected…

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Home noun · 78% connection

One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one'…

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Life noun · 78% connection

A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affair…

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Life-saving adjective · 78% connection

That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.

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Living noun · 78% connection

The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.

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Logographer noun · 78% connection

A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.

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Memoirs noun · 78% connection

A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in f…

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