Prosopography
[prah-sə-PAH-ɡrə-fee]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Latin, late 16th century
1.
A description of a person’s social and family connections, career, etc., or a collection of such descriptions.
Examples of Prosopography in a sentence
"The sociologist used the prosopographies of different groups to study larger trends."
"My grandmother traced our family’s genealogy, and I used her research to start on the prosopography."
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