the subject of a biography; the person whose life is described in a biography
Word origin
[1835–45; biograph(y) + -ee]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crosshead, daisy chain, ecumenical, grandstand, serial-ee is a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is theobject or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee); more recent formations also mark the performer of an act, with the base being anintransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee)
Examples of 'biographee' in a sentence
biographee
But think of everything that got away, that fled with the last deathbed exhalation of the biographee.