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birth-certificate

birth-certificate is the alternative form of birth certificate.

Meaning of birth certificate

Noun

birth certificate (plural birth certificates)

  1. An official document certifying the details of an individual's birth, indicating the name, date, and parents' names, and details such as parents' occupation and religion.
    • [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28

Forms of birth-certificate

pluralbirth-certificates

Questions about birth-certificate

What is birth-certificate the alternative form of?
Birth-certificate is the alternative form of birth certificate.

Words near birth-certificate in the dictionary

  1. birth tray
  2. birth trays
  3. birth weight
  4. birth weights
  5. birth-assigned
  6. birth-certificate
  7. birth-certificates
  8. birth-control glasses
  9. birth-day
  10. birth-days
  11. birth-home

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birth-certificate (page history and authors); birth certificate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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