English Online Dictionary. What means documentary? What does documentary mean?
English
Etymology
From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌdɑ.kjəˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/, /ˌdɑ.kjəˈmɛn.tɹi/
Adjective
documentary (not comparable)
- Of, related to, or based on documents.
- Synonyms: documentative, documentational
- Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
- Synonyms: documentative, documentational
- (of a film, book, etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
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Noun
documentary (countable and uncountable, plural documentaries)
- A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
- (uncountable) Such works collectively, as a genre.
Antonyms
- fiction
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See also
- cinéma vérité
Anagrams
- countrymade