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birth certificate
noun
- an official form recording the birth of a baby and containing pertinent data, as name, sex, date, place, and parents.
birth certificate
noun
- an official form giving details of the time and place of a person's birth, and his or her name, sex, mother's name and (usually) father's name
Word History and Origins
Origin of birth certificate1
Example Sentences
My birth certificate was modified, I changed my name, and when I was sixteen I emancipated from my grandparents and my father.
She continued on to Maine and secured a birth certificate in the name of Julia Wadsworth.
Miller was able to use the Maine birth certificate to secure an Ohio identity card as Julia Wadsworth.
While in the House, he was something of a birth-certificate “truther.”
This was a short time after Obama released his birth certificate and when Trump was feigning a run for president.
Does a birth-certificate, a marriage-contract or an inventory of wealth represent a person?
By the way, you can easily put your hand on your birth certificate, as well as the death certificate of your father, I suppose?
The young arrival a few days later was described on his birth-certificate as "John Washington."
Nobody carries about with him birth certificate or memoranda of identification and relationship.
It is not for nothing that I begin with this flourish of my birth certificate and public confession of love.
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