documentary
- adjective
- /ˌdɑːkjəˈmɛnteri/
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documental
- His latest book offers a documentary perspective on the impact of climate change on coastal communities.
Examples
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She holds a degree from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the radio program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
Blog text (6) -
Definitely an emphasis on film theory, documentary, not so much the Hollywood studio system.
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The pictures give a very interesting and documentary approach.
Blog text (34) -
So I think of it way, way, way more documentary than I do content or sitcom or whatever you want to call it.
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And this photograph is a straight, highly documentary image showing the presence of material in an assay.
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Yet one of the most unsettling (and least remarked) implications of Sebald's seemingly documentary, autobiographical texts concerns the role of memory itself in preserving the past.
Academic text (2003) -
The professor provided a documentary analysis of the historical records that supported her thesis.
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This article takes a documentary approach to examine the evolution of social media in modern society.
Synonyms
About papers or written records used as proof
Proved by written or official papers
Compounds
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A film or television program that shows animals living in nature and explains the natural world
How Documented
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Documentary The word documentary comes from document, which comes from the Latin documentum and the verb docere meaning 'to teach'. Because a document was seen as a 'lesson' or a 'written proof', documentary describes things 'from records', so it is used for evidence or records based on real written facts.