documentary

English

Etymology

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌdɒk.jəˈmɛn.tri/, /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tri/
• (US) IPA: /ˌdɑː.kjəˈmɛn.tɚ.i/, /ˌdɑː.kjʊˈmɛn.tɚ.i/

Adjective

documentary (not comparable)

1. of, related to, or based on documents.
2. which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
3. (of a film, book etc) presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

Translations

of, related to or based on documents/that serves to document something

• Bulgarian: документален (bg) (dokumentalen)
• Catalan: documental (ca)
• Dutch: documentair (nl)
• French: documentaire (fr)
• Icelandic: heimilda- (is)

• Portuguese: documental (pt)
• Russian: документальный (ru) (documentál'nyj)
• Spanish: documental (es), documentario (es)
• Swedish: dokumentär (sv)
• Volapük: dokümik (vo)

presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter

• Hebrew: תיעודי (he) (ti'udy)
• Portuguese: documental (pt)

• Swedish: dokumentär (sv)

Noun

Wikipedia documentary (plural documentaries)

1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

Antonyms

• fiction

Derived terms

terms derived from documentary (noun)

fuckumentary mockumentary schlockumentary

shockumentary stalkumentary

Related terms

• docudrama

Translations

documentary film

• Arabic: فيلم وثائقي (ar) (film wathaa'iqiy) m
• Bulgarian: документален филм
• Catalan: documental (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紀錄片 (cmn), 纪录片 (cmn) (jìlùpiàn), 記錄片 (cmn), 记录片 (cmn) (jìlùpiàn)

• Czech: dokument (cs) m
• Dutch: documentaire (nl)
• Esperanto: dokumentfilmo (eo)
• Finnish: dokumentti (fi), dokumenttielokuva (fi)
• French: documentaire (fr) m
• German: Dokumentation (de) f, Dokumentarfilm (de) m

• Hungarian: dokumentumfilm (hu)
• Icelandic: heimildamynd (is) f
• Japanese: ドキュメンタリー (ja) (dokyumentarī)
• Norwegian: dokumentar (no) m
• Persian: مستند (fa) (mostanad)
• Portuguese: documentário (pt) m
• Romanian: documentar (ro) n
• Russian: документальный фильм (ru) (documentál'nyj fil'm) m
• Spanish: documental (es) m
• Swedish: dokumentär (sv) c, dokumentärfilm (sv) c
• Turkish: belgesel (tr)

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