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biography vs history

history vs biography

biography and history both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
biography Yes No No No
history Yes No No No
As nouns, history is a hypernym of biography; that is, history is a word with a broader meaning than biography:
  • biography: an account of the series of events making up a person's life
  • history: a record or narrative description of past events
Other hypernyms of biography include account, chronicle, story.
biography (noun) history (noun)
an account of the series of events making up a person's life the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
a record or narrative description of past events
the aggregate of past events
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
Difference between biography and history

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