life history

Questions about life history

What does life history mean?

life history means "an account of the series of events making up a person's life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for life history?

Close synonyms include biography, life, life story, career. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is life history a common word?

life history is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.