bio

Pluralbios

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A short description of the main facts of someone's life.

   Please send us a short bio to print in the concert program.

   Before the talk, the teacher read the writer's bio to the class.

   Similarbiography, profile

2. 2
   nouncountable

   The short part of your profile on a website or app where you tell people about yourself.

   I changed my bio to say that I love cats and baking.

   Lots of people add little pictures and emoji to their bios.

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3. 3
   nounabbreviationclipping

   Short for biography. A casual word for a book about a person's life.

   I just finished reading a bio of a famous singer.

   My uncle is writing a bio of his grandfather.

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4. 4
   nouncolloquialabbreviationclipping

   Short for biology. A casual name for the school subject about living things.

   Bio is my favorite class this year.

   We looked at plant cells under a microscope in bio today.

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5. 5
   adjectivecolloquial

   A short, casual word for biological, which means about living things or related by birth.

   Sam met his bio dad for the first time last summer.

   Dad switched to a bio detergent that gets the wash clean in cold water.

   Similarbiological

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6. 6
   nouncolloquialSouth Africaabbreviationclipping

   Short for bioscope. A casual South African word for a movie theater.

   We went to the bio to see a funny film.

   Is the bio open on Sunday afternoons?

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