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document

[ noun dok-yuh-muhnt; verb dok-yuh-ment ]

noun

  1. a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper:

    You'll need documents from your employers and your bank to prepare your income tax return.

  2. any written item, as a book, article, or letter, especially of a factual or informative nature:

    The leaked document proves that the management team knew about the safety issues before the product launch.

  3. Digital Technology. a computer data file, especially one with formatted text:

    Luckily, I saved my document right before the power went out.

  4. Archaic. evidence; proof.


verb (used with object)

  1. to furnish with documents.
  2. to furnish with references, citations, etc., in support of statements made:

    a carefully documented biography.

    Synonyms: validate, substantiate, verify, corroborate

  3. to support by documentary evidence:

    to document a case.

  4. Nautical. to provide (a vessel) with a certificate giving particulars concerning nationality, ownership, tonnage, dimensions, etc.
  5. Obsolete. to instruct.

document

noun

  1. a piece of paper, booklet, etc, providing information, esp of an official or legal nature
  2. a piece of text or text and graphics stored in a computer as a file for manipulation by document processing software
  3. archaic.
    evidence; proof
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to record or report in detail, as in the press, on television, etc

    the trial was well documented by the media

  2. to support (statements in a book) with citations, references, etc
  3. to support (a claim, etc) with evidence or proof
  4. to furnish (a vessel) with official documents specifying its ownership, registration, weight, dimensions, and function
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • doc·u·ment·a·ble [dok, -y, uh, -men-t, uh, -b, uh, l, dok-y, uh, -, men, -], adjective
  • docu·menter noun
  • non·docu·mented adjective noun
  • re·docu·ment verb (used with object)
  • well-docu·mented adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of document1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin documentum “example (as precedent, warning, etc.),” from doc(ēre) “to teach” + -u- (variant of -i- -i- before labials) + -mentum -ment
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Word History and Origins

Origin of document1

C15: from Latin documentum a lesson, from docēre to teach
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Example Sentences

She was told to sign a Harrods non-disclosure agreement two months after the trip - the BBC has seen this document.

From BBC

Make a group chat so you can co-ordinate your efforts and, most importantly, put all of your registration numbers and postcodes in a shared document so the first person to reach the front of the queue is ready.

From BBC

She wanted help identifying a document she’d found among Molina’s papers — it was a fax; it might as well have been a stone tablet to her — from county archives.

She asked about “all the mumbo jumbo” — the transmission information — at the top of the document; I was more interested in the content: records from the 1930s that detailed a shameful chapter in Los Angeles history — repatriation campaigns that targeted Mexican and Mexican American families.

The celebrity news outlet reports that there were no other contributing factors to his death, per the document.

From Salon

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