Documentary Definition

dŏkyə-mĕntə-rē
documentaries
adjective
Consisting of, supported by, contained in, or serving as a document or documents.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a film, TV program, etc. that dramatically shows or analyzes news events, social conditions, etc., with little or no fictionalization.
Webster's New World
Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
American Heritage
Which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
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noun
documentaries
A documentary film, TV show, etc.
Webster's New World
A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.
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Other Word Forms of Documentary

Noun

Singular:
documentary
Plural:
documentaries

Origin of Documentary

  • From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum.

    From Wiktionary

Documentary Sentence Examples

  • There is documentary evidence of a castle at Nantwich in the 13th century.

  • Marie Jeanne, in fact, took great care of the child's person, and there is documentary evidence to prove that he had air and food.

  • The making of beads was probably practised at Venice from a very early period, but the earliest documentary evidence bearing on the subject does not appear to be of earlier date than the 14th century, when prohibitions were directed against those who made of glass such objects as were usually made of crystal or other hard stones.

  • He was in the process of filming a documentary called The Ocean's Deadliest.

  • By a comparison of these two lines of evidence we can approximate to a text current about 300 B.C. or later; but for any errors which had entered into the common source of these two forms of the text we possess no documentary means of detection whatsoever.

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Words Starting With

DDODOC

Words Ending With

YRYARY

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Words Starting With D and Ending With Y

Starts With D & Ends With YStarts With DO & Ends With YStarts With D & Ends With RY

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With D11 Letter Words Ending With Y