EGAVE

life history

About 2.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An investigation into the details and activities of a person over the course of their lifetime; one’s background.
    His life history shows that he frequently moves from town to town, moving from one job to the next.
  2. noun Information concerning a person’s diseases and medical disorders suffered during his or her lifetime; especially useful if the disorders are genetic.
  3. noun The set of stages that an organism, or a species, experiences over its lifetime, from conception to death.

Similar words

life story biography career life family history livelihood antibiography herstory oral history autobiography

Word family

life histories

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