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documentarian

Also dz···ٲ·

[dok-yuh-men-tair-ee-uhn, -muhn-]

noun

  1. Movies, Television.a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.

  2. a writer, photographer, or other artist whose work constitutes a document or documentary of an aspect of life.



documentarian

/ ˌɒʊəˈɛəɪə /

noun

  1. a person who makes documentary films

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of documentarian1

First recorded in 1940–45; document(ary) + -arian
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Example Sentences

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“The Life of Chuck” is a nearly line-by-line faithful adaptation, with a few more jokes and heavy use of a narrator, Nick Offerman, who reads King’s words with a nature documentarian’s gusto.

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The book’s middle section is bulky with their dramas, which Choi approaches like a documentarian.

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His work — spanning books and collaborations with artists, musicians, documentarians and now, rivers themselves — is far more expansive.

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Earlier this week, Deadline reported that the festival will get another life as a streaming service after documentarian Shawn Rech acquired some Fyre IP.

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You’re not going to find a series by Ken Burns, the country’s most famous documentary filmmaker, or a film by Frederick Wiseman, its greatest living documentarian, just dropping on YouTube — unless PBS posts it there.

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