document
/ˈdɑkjʊmənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.50 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
Example Sentences
- "Saint Luke […] collected them from such documents and testimonies as he […] judged to be authentic."
- "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."
- "That exception is the HTML 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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "They were forthwith stoned to death, as a document to others."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: documentum
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɑkjʊmənt/
- British English: /ˈdɒkjʊmənt/