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documentarian

  • /ˌdɒk.jʊ.mənˈtɛəɹi.ən/ UK
  • /-.mɛnˈ-/ UK
  • /ˌdɑ.kjʊ.mənˈtɛɹi.ən/ US
  • /-.kjə.-/ US
  • /-.mɛnˈ-/ US

Rhymes with -ɛəɹiən

Where it comes from

From documentary + -an.

From document + -arian.

noun documentarians

  1. A person whose profession is to create documentary films. As film tourism becomes a rising field of interest, this portion of documentary history is in danger of repetition unless documentarians utilize the nobler ideas of documentary in order to cultivate a deeper understanding between people, filmmaker, and audience.
  2. A person who writes software documentation. After you have gone through all these steps, you are ready to tackle your company's documentation problems. You have also become an experienced systems documentarian...
  3. A person who cares about communication and documentation. Expanding the meaning of documentarian to include folks of any job title is important. Historically, people writing documentation might be called either a tech writer or a programmer, but there wasn’t a name for someone who cares about communication and documentation. We hope to change this.
  4. attributive, sometimes Somebody who advocates the documentary hypothesis.

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noun person whose profession is to create documentary films

Españoldocumentalista
Portuguêsdocumentarista
DeutschDokumentarfilmer, Dokumentarfilmerin, Dokumentarist, Dokumentaristin

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@misc{documentarian_2026,
  title = {documentarian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/documentarian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}