# bios

Pronunciation: say "BY-ohz" US /ˈbaɪoʊz/, UK /ˈbaɪəʊz/

## Noun

1. Plural of bio. — plural of bio
   - Simple: Plural of bio. Use it for more than one short life story or profile.
   - _The conference website lists short bios of every panelist._
   - _She rewrote both of her online bios after changing jobs._
2. In Giorgio Agamben's philosophy, a particular or qualified mode of life, as distinct from bare life, or zoe.
   - Simple: In the ideas of Giorgio Agamben, a particular way of living, unlike zoe, which is bare life.
   - _The seminar spent a week on Agamben's opposition between bios and zoe._
   - _In this reading, the refugee is stripped of bios and reduced to bare life._

## Noun

3. A substance once thought to be a single vitamin essential for the growth of yeast, later shown to be several B vitamins. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A thing once thought to be one vitamin that yeast needs to grow, later found to be several B vitamins.
   - _Without bios in the medium, the yeast cultures barely multiplied._
   - _The chemists spent years trying to purify bios from plant extracts._

## Origin

From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos). It is a doublet of jiva and quick.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/bios (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).