bio

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪoʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

Noun

bio (plural bios)

1. Clipping of biography.

   To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.

   • 2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide:

     Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).

   • 2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter‎:

     Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.

   • 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan‎:

     She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube.

2. A biographical sketch.
3. (informal) Clipping of biology.

   I've got a bio exam in the morning.

   • 2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian‎:

     It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.

4. (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
   • 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31:

     Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.

Adjective

bio (not comparable)

1. (informal) biological.

   a bio detergent

   my bio family

   We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.

Anagrams

• BOI, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, boi, obi

Etymology

From the clipping of English biology.

Pronunciation

Noun

bio

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology

See also

• phy chem bio

Noun

bio

1. (slang) cinema
2. (slang) biology

Etymology

From biologie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.oː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bio

Noun

bio f (uncountable)

1. (informal) biology (as a school subject)

   Synonym: biologie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjo/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

Clipping of biologique.

Etymology 2

Clipping of biologie.

Etymology 3

Clipping of biographie.

Further reading

• “bio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Ibo

Noun

bio

1. time

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbio/ [ˈbi.o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bi‧o

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 廟／庙 (biō, biāu, “temple”).

Further reading

• “bio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Adjective

bio (invariable)

1. (informal) Clipping of biologico.; organic, biological

Anagrams

• obi