document
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from Middle French#DOCUMENTCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#DOCUMENT document, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DOCUMENT documentum.
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omənt, IPA(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmənt/Category:English 3-syllable words#DOCUMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
- (US) enPR: dä'kyo͝omənt, IPA(key): /ˈdɑkjʊmənt/Category:English 3-syllable words#DOCUMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt/Category:English 3-syllable words#DOCUMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
- (US) enPR: dä'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA(key): /ˈdɑkjʊmɛnt/Category:English 3-syllable words#DOCUMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
Noun
document (plural documents)Category:English lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:English nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:English countable nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
- An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
- 1794, William Paley, View of the Evidences of Christianity:
- Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
- 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 122:
- If a morsel of food fell off your plate, the advice of one contemporary document was to pick it up, make the sign of the cross over it, season it well - and then eat it.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#DOCUMENT) A file that contains text.
- 2012, Julie A. Jacko, editor, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 571:
- That exception is the HTML <IMG> tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied—it is transcluded.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- (information scienceCategory:en:Information science#DOCUMENT) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
- 2022 July 15, Alex Urban, “Mementos from digital worlds: Video game photography as documentation”, in Journal of Documentation, , →ISSN, Abstract:
- This study examines video game photography as a documentary practice. […] The three themes from this study's findings – that video game photographs act as (1) vehicles for storytelling, (2) creative trophies, and (3) aesthetic tokens – reveal how personally meaningful documents emerge from this medium.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#DOCUMENT) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
- 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind:
- And particularly they should take care that the memory of the learner be not too much crowded with a tumultuous heap or overbearing multitude of documents or ideas at one time.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#DOCUMENT) An example for instruction or warning.
- 1614, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World:
- They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- ancient document
- doculect
- documental
- documentality
- documentarian
- documentary
- document camera
- document management system
- documentology
- document-oriented
- document retrieval
- document structuring
- document-style
- e-document
- electronic document
- here-document
- hyperdocument
- identity document
- interdocument
- intradocument
- liquid document
- metadocument
- microdocument
- multidocument
- multidocuments
- source document
- subdocument
- travel document
Related terms
Translations
Category:Entries with translation boxes#DOCUMENT
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Verb
document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)Category:English lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:English verbs#DOCUMENTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
- To record in documents.
- He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.Category:English terms with usage examples#DOCUMENT
- 2009 May 18, Henry Greenspan, “Of Memory and Israel”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
- The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- 2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 July 2018:
- “Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-three-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words. It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- 2015, Louise J. Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, page 92:
- Significantly, on documenting Thomas's subsequent outlawry and Margery's waivery, the court clerk recorded that it was not known whether they had any chattels because they were strangers.Category:English terms with quotations#DOCUMENT
- To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
- A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.Category:English terms with usage examples#DOCUMENT
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
document on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “document”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Category:English heteronyms#DOCUMENTCatalan
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#DOCUMENTCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#DOCUMENT documentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
document m (plural documents)Category:Catalan lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:Catalan nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Catalan countable nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
Related terms
Further reading
- “document”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “document”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “document” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “document” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from Middle French#DOCUMENTCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle French#DOCUMENT document, from LatinCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#DOCUMENT documentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdoː.kyˈmɛnt/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#DOCUMENTAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: do‧cu‧ment
- Rhymes: -ɛntCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnt#DOCUMENTCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnt/3 syllables#DOCUMENT
Noun
document n (plural documenten, diminutive documentje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:Dutch nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#DOCUMENTCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
- document
- Synonym: bewijsstuk
Derived terms
Descendants
French
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#DOCUMENTCategory:French terms derived from Latin#DOCUMENT documentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃/Category:French 3-syllable words#DOCUMENTCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#DOCUMENTAudio (Paris): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#DOCUMENTAudio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#DOCUMENTAudio (France (Toulouse)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#DOCUMENTAudio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#DOCUMENTAudio (France (Vosges)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃Category:Rhymes:French/ɑ̃#DOCUMENT
- Homophone: documentsCategory:French terms with homophones#DOCUMENT
Noun
document m (plural documents)Category:French lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:French nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:French countable nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:French masculine nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “document”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Friulian
Pronunciation
Noun
document mCategory:Friulian lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:Friulian nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Friulian entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Friulian masculine nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
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Further reading
Lombard
Pronunciation
- (Milanese) IPA(key): /dokyˈmẽːt/Category:Lombard terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
Noun
document mCategory:Lombard lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:Lombard nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Lombard entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Lombard masculine nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
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Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Occitan terms borrowed from Latin#DOCUMENTCategory:Occitan terms derived from Latin#DOCUMENT documentum. Attested from the 13th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
document m (plural documents)Category:Occitan lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:Occitan nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Occitan countable nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Occitan entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Occitan masculine nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
Related terms
References
- ↑ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 207
Piedmontese
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Piedmontese terms borrowed from Latin#DOCUMENTCategory:Piedmontese terms derived from Latin#DOCUMENT documentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
document mCategory:Piedmontese lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:Piedmontese nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Piedmontese entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Piedmontese masculine nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#DOCUMENTCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#DOCUMENT document, ItalianCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from Italian#DOCUMENTCategory:Romanian terms derived from Italian#DOCUMENT documento, LatinCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from Latin#DOCUMENTCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#DOCUMENT documentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do.kuˈment/Category:Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation#DOCUMENT
Noun
document n (plural documente)Category:Romanian lemmas#DOCUMENTCategory:Romanian nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Romanian countable nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#DOCUMENTCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCUMENTCategory:Pages with 9 entries#DOCUMENT
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | document | documentul | documente | documentele |
| genitive-dative | document | documentului | documente | documentelor |
| vocative | documentule | documentelor | ||
Further reading
- “document”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026