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documentarian

[ 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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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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The constant radio chatter — which includes the unlikely announcing voice of legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman — doesn’t give the era away, nor do the younger characters’ hairstyles, since mullets and dreads endure.

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The proliferation of synthetic images makes the job of documentarians and researchers — safeguarding the integrity of primary source material, digging through archives, presenting history accurately — even more urgent.

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She resisted her documentarian niece’s attempts to tell her story for years.

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