Definition

Noun: 1. The general progression of your working or professional life: The sequence of jobs, roles, or stages that constitute a person's occupational journey. 2. An account of the series of events making up a person's life: A detailed narrative or description of the significant experiences and events from a person's birth to death.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Professional Progression):

  • His life history includes a distinguished career in medicine, culminating in a Nobel Prize.
  • The biography focused more on her political life history than on her personal struggles.

• Noun (Personal Narrative):

  • She wrote a captivating book detailing her life history from childhood to old age.
  • The anthropologist recorded the life history of the tribal elder to preserve their cultural knowledge.

Advanced Usage

• In scientific contexts (e.g., biology, ecology): The term can refer to the series of stages an organism passes through from its origin to its natural death.
  • The study compared the life history strategies of different bird species.

Variants and Related Words

• Biography (n): A written account of another person's life.
• Autobiography (n): An account of a person's life written by that person.
• Memoir (n): A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge.
• Career (n): An individual's journey through learning, work, and other aspects of life, often specifically related to profession.

Synonyms

• Career path
• Biographical account
• Personal story
• Chronicle

Related Phrases

• Oral history: The collection and study of historical information using audio recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events, which may include their life history.
• Case history: A record of a person's background, experiences, and present condition, often used in medical or psychological contexts.

Noun

1. the general progression of your working or professional life
   • the general had had a distinguished career
   • he had a long career in the law
2. an account of the series of events making up a person's life