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say it: hag-ee-AH-gruh-fee
hagiography is a noun meaning "a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)". It is pronounced /ˌhæɡiˈɑɡɹəfi/ — hag-ee-AH-gruh-fee. It carries one recorded sense.
a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hagiography come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.