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    Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

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    document (plural documents)

    2. 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.
    4. 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.
    6. (computing) 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.
    8. (information science) 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, →DOI, →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.
    10. (obsolete) 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.
    12. (obsolete) 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.

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    (computing) a file that contains text

    Verb

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    document (third-person singular simple present documents, present participle documenting, simple past and past participle documented)

    1. To record in documents.
      He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
      • 2009 May 18, Henry Greenspan, “Of Memory and Israel”, in The New York Times‎[2], 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.
      • 2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker‎[3], 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.
      • 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.
    2. To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
      A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

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    Catalan

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin documentum.

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    document m (plural documents)

    1. document
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    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

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    • IPA(key): /ˌdoː.kyˈmɛnt/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: do‧cu‧ment
    • Rhymes: -ɛnt

    Noun

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    document n (plural documenten, diminutive documentje n)

    1. document
      Synonym: bewijsstuk

    Descendants

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    • Afrikaans: dokument
    • → Indonesian: dokumen

    French

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    Borrowed from Latin documentum.

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    document m (plural documents)

    1. document
    2. (computing) file

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    document m

    1. document
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    Lombard

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    • (Milanese) IPA(key): /dokyˈmẽːt/

    Noun

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    document m

    1. document
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    Occitan

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin documentum. Attested from the 13th century.[1]

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    document m (plural documents)

    1. document
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    1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 207

    Piedmontese

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin documentum.

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    document m

    1. document

    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French document, Italian documento, Latin documentum.

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    Noun

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    document n (plural documente)

    1. document

    Declension

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative document documentul documente documentele
    genitive-dative document documentului documente documentelor
    vocative documentule documentelor

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