documentary
Meaning
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- Of, related to, or based on documents.
- Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
- Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
Concepts
documentary
documentary film
documental
docudrama
objective
infotainment
news
topic
topicality
reportage
feature
document
docu
subtitler
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/
Etymology
From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.
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