biographies
USby-AH-gruh-feez/baɪˈɑɡɹəfiz/UKby-OG-ruh-feez/baɪˈɒɡɹəfiz/
- 1Plural of biography.
Several new biographies of the late president appeared within a year of his death.
Critics praised both biographies for their meticulous use of personal letters.
Note
A regular plural, made by the spelling rule that turns a consonant plus y into -ies, as with story and stories. It counts life stories, as in several biographies of one president, so it belongs to the countable use. The art of writing them stays uncountable and has no plural. The verb meaning "to write a biography of" shares this spelling in its third-person singular present.
biographies is a form of biography
biography, noun: A written account of a person's life, especially one that has been published. Full entry
- Forms
- biographybiographies plural
- Spelling
- biography → biographies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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