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birth certificates

birth certificates is the plural 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

Questions about birth certificates

What is birth certificates the plural of?
Birth certificates is the plural of birth certificate.

Words near birth certificates in the dictionary

  1. birth
  2. birth canal
  3. birth canals
  4. birth cert
  5. birth certificate
  6. birth certificates
  7. birth certs
  8. birth chair
  9. birth chairs
  10. birth chart
  11. birth charts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birth certificates (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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