hagiographer
/ˌhæɡiˈɑɡɹəfɚ/noun
hagiographer is a noun meaning “Someone who writes the biography of a saint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-G-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-E-R, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hagiographer is hagiographers.
What does hagiographer mean?
noun
- 1
Someone who writes the biography of a saint.
- 2
derogatorySomeone who writes in an excessively flattering and laudatory way about a person (as if that person were a saint).
- 3
A writer of any of the Hagiographa․
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hagiographer?
- US /ˌhæɡiˈɑɡɹəfɚ/
- US /ˌheɪɡi-/
- US /ˌheɪd͡ʒi-/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hagiographer
- hagiographers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hagiographer?
Hagiographer appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hagiographer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense someone who writes the biography of a saint:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hagiographe |
| Portuguese | hagiógrafo |
| Spanish | hagiógrafo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hagiographer come from?
From hagiography + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).