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nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən//
  • United States//ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən//
  • United States//ˌdɑkjəmənˈteɪʃən//
  • Canada//ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən//
  • Australia//ˌdɔkjʊmenˈtæɪʃən//

A documentary.

noun

  1. 1

    rareSomething transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.

  2. 2

    rareDocumentary evidence and sources.

  3. 3

    rareDocuments that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.

  4. 4

    rareComments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

Etymology

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.

noun

  1. 1

    A documentary.

    Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

    Yesterday I watched a documentation about the Dresden fire storm.

    Yesterday, I watched a documentation about the "boss" of a German allot settlement who told other gardeners what plants to grow and what weed to cut. GEEZE! GET A LIVE! I felt tempted paying a visit to them and leave a bunch of knobby tire marks on this sucker's lawn...

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dokumentation.

Forms

plural
documentations
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).