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here documents

here documents is the plural of here document.

Meaning of here document

Noun

here document (plural here documents)

  1. A block of text included in the source code of a computer program in such a way that it is treated as a single string literal with line breaks etc. as written.
    Synonyms:
    heredoc, here-text

Questions about here documents

What is here documents the plural of?
Here documents is the plural of here document.

Words near here documents in the dictionary

  1. here below
  2. here comes the aeroplane
  3. here comes the airplane
  4. here comes the plane
  5. here document
  6. here documents
  7. here for a good time, not a long time
  8. here for it
  9. here goes
  10. here goes nothing
  11. here here

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Adapted from Wiktionary: here documents (page history and authors); here document (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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