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Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Middle French document, from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation Edit

(noun)
- (Received Pronunciation): enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omənt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmənt/
- (US): enPR: dä'kyo͝omənt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑkjʊmənt/
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(verb)
- (Received Pronunciation): enPR: dŏ'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnt/
  - Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US): enPR: dä'kyo͝omĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑkjʊmɛnt/

Noun Edit

document (plural documents)

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.
Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
(computing) A file that contains text.
(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.
(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.
(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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original or official paper

Albanian: dokument (sq) m
Arabic: وَثِيقَة‎ f (waṯīqa), مُسْتَنَد‎ m (mustanad), حُجَّة‎ f (ḥujja)
Armenian: փաստաթուղթ (hy) (pʿastatʿuġtʿ)
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: documentu m
Azerbaijani: sənəd (az), kağız (az), dokument
Basque: dokumentu
Belarusian: дакуме́нт m (dakumjént), дакумэ́нт m (dakumént)
Bengali: দলিল (bn) (dolil), দস্তাবেজ (bn) (dostabej)
Bulgarian: докуме́нт (bg) m (dokumént)
Burmese: စာရွက်စာတမ်း (my) (carwakcatam:)
Catalan: document (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文件 (zh) (wénjiàn), 公文 (zh) (gōngwén), 文書／文书 (zh) (wénshū), 文獻／文献 (zh) (wénxiàn)
Czech: dokument (cs)
Danish: dokument (da) n
Dutch: document (nl) n
Esperanto: dokumento, akto
Estonian: dokument
Faroese: skjal n
Finnish: asiakirja (fi), dokumentti (fi)
French: document (fr) m, écrit (fr) m
Galician: documento (gl) m
Georgian: დოკუმენტი (doḳumenṭi), საბუთი (sabuti)
German: Unterlagen (de) pl, Dokument (de) n, Aktenstück (de) n, Schriftstück (de) n
Greek: έγγραφο (el) n (éngrafo), τεκμήριο (el) n (tekmírio)
Ancient: δέλτος f (déltos)
Guaraní: kuatia
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Haitian Creole: dokiman
Hawaiian: palapala
Hebrew: תְּעוּדָה‎ (he) f (te'uda), מִסְמָך‎ (he) m (mismakh)
Hindi: दस्तावेज़ f (dastāvez), सनद (hi) f (sanad), काग़ज़ m (kāġaz)
Hungarian: okirat (hu), okmány (hu), dokumentum (hu)
Icelandic: skjal (is) n
Indonesian: dokumen (id)
Ingrian: assiapaperi
Irish: cáipéis f, doiciméad m
Italian: documento (it) m, carta (it) f
Japanese: 書類 (ja) (しょるい, shorui), 文書 (ja) (ぶんしょ, bunsho), ドキュメント (ja) (dokyumento)
Kazakh: құжат (qūjat), ыспаттама (yspattama)
Khmer: ឯកសារ (km) (ʼaekaʼsaa)
Korean: 서류(書類) (ko) (seoryu), 문서(文書) (ko) (munseo), 도큐먼트 (dokyumeonteu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: belge (ku), dokument (ku)
Kyrgyz: документ (ky) (dokument)
Lao: ເອກະສານ (lo) (ʼē ka sān)
Latin: scriptum (la) n
Latvian: dokuments m
Lithuanian: dokumentas (lt) m
Macedonian: докуме́нт m (dokumént)
Malay: surat (ms), dokumen (ms)
Maltese: dokument m
Maori: tuhinga
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: баримт бичиг (mn) (barimt bičig)
Norman: dotchûment m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dokument (no) n
Occitan: document (oc) m
Ojibwe: mazina'igan
Pashto: دستاوېز‎ (ps) m (dastāwez), سند‎ (ps) m (sanad), مدرک‎ m (madrak), وثيقه‎ f (wasiqa)
Persian: سَنَد‎ (fa) (sanad), مَدرَک‎ (fa) (madrak), حُجَّت‎ (fa) (hojjat)
Polish: dokument (pl) m
Portuguese: documento (pt) m
Romanian: document (ro) n
Russian: докуме́нт (ru) m (dokumént)
Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhainn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: доку̀мент m

Roman: dokùment (sh) m
Sicilian: carta (scn) f, ducumentu (scn) m, pricu m
Sinhalese: ඔප්පුව (oppuwa)
Skolt Sami: dokumentt
Slovak: dokument (sk) m
Slovene: dokument (sl) m
Spanish: documento (es) m, pliego (es)
Swahili: waraka (sw)
Swedish: dokument (sv) n
Tagalog: dokumento, papeles
Tajik: ҳуҷҷат (tg) (hujjat), санад (sanad), документ (tg) (dokument), мадрак (madrak)
Tamil: பத்திரம் (ta) (pattiram)
Thai: เอกสาร (th) (èek-gà-sǎan)
Turkish: belge (tr), doküman (tr)
Turkmen: dokument
Ukrainian: докуме́нт (uk) m (dokumént)
Urdu: دَسْتاویز‎ f (dastāvez), سَنَد‎ f (sanad), کاغَذ‎ m (kāġaz)
Uyghur: ھۆججەت‎ (höjjet), دوكۇمېنت‎ (dokumënt)
Uzbek: hujjat (uz), dokument (uz), sanad (uz) (dated)
Vietnamese: tài liệu (vi), văn kiện (vi)
Volapük: doküm (vo)
West Frisian: akte, dokumint
Yiddish: דאָקומענט‎ m (dokument), שריפֿט‎ m (shrift), געשריפֿט‎ n (geshrift), כּתבֿ‎ m or n (ksav), שטר‎ m (shtar)
Zazaki: medrek

(computing) a file that contains text

Arabic: مُسْتَنَد‎ m (mustanad)
Polish: dokument (pl) m

Verb Edit

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

To record in documents.
He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.