documenter
- noun
- /ˈdɒkjʊˌmɛntər/
- Mark Curran argues that cordel is in its last active stage as the popular documenter and interpreter of current events and great issues.
Examples
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As a documenter, he is dedicated to preserving historical events for future generations.
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As a documenter, she will preserve her people's stories in the face of what McWhorter believed to be the inevitable extinction of a people.
Academic text (1995) -
Document the documenters.
Blog text (26) -
The possibility of disrupting family relationships and privacy, as well as the unreliability of documenters and test results, does not place these monitoring options in a favorable light.
Academic text (1992) -
The actions and talk within a particular context over time, observable by members of an institution and by documenters acting in the role of participant/observers, reflect the norms of an institution.
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The documenter interviewed various witnesses to gather information about the incident.
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She works as a documenter for the museum, capturing detailed accounts of its exhibitions.
Synonyms
A person who creates books, articles, or stories
A person who writes books or articles
A person who writes or records information for other people
A person who types documents for work using a keyboard
A person who writes down events in the order they happen
A person who writes a diary regularly to record daily thoughts and events
A person who writes and keeps the official papers for a group
A person who writes important documents by hand, especially before printing
A person who writes their daily thoughts and experiences in a diary
A person who writes the first version of a document or plan
A person who collects and puts together information from different sources for a book or report
A person who writes documents or books by hand
A person who writes and saves important official information in files
A person who listens to spoken words or reads handwriting and types it
A person who collects, organizes and preserves important papers and files
A person who writes down what someone else says
A person who writes down everything said during a meeting or trial
A person who writes the first draft of an official document
A person who writes history about past events, often in ancient times
A person who copies texts by hand, often in the past
A person who takes notes during meetings or lectures
A person who writes in a diary regularly to record thoughts and events
A person who writes words for adverts or websites
A person who writes a formal letter or petition to an official
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Documenter comes from document, from the old Latin root docere meaning 'to show' or 'to teach', plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So a documenter is someone who writes or prepares documents to 'show' and explain a subject or process clearly.