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DOCUMENTARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
Synonyms:
docudrama; documentary; documentary film; infotainment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("documentary" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
Derivation:
document (record in detail)
documentary ((of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event
Classified under:
Similar:
existent; real (being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory)
Derivation:
documentary (a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or consisting of or derived from documents
Synonyms:
documental; documentary
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))
Derivation:
document (anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks)
document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))
document ((computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters)
document (a written account of ownership or obligation)
