documentary
pronunciation
How to pronounce documentary in British English:
UK [ˌdɒkjuˈmentri]
How to pronounce documentary in American English:
US [ˌdɑːkjuˈmentri]
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- Noun:
- a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
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- Adjective:
- relating to or consisting of or derived from documents
Word Origin
- documentary (adj.)
- c. 1810, "pertaining to documents," from document + -ary. Meaning "factual, meant to provide a record of something" is from 1926, from French film documentarie (1924). The noun (short for documentary film) is attested from 1935. Docudrama is a 1961 coinage.
Example
- 1. It is a porn film posing as a documentary .
- 2. His film is propaganda rather than documentary .
- 3. Ms chan did not participate in that documentary .
- 4. Our pics are straightforward documentary .
- 5. The title of the documentary is actually slightly misleading .