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Plural of documentary

regular plural

The plural of documentary is documentaries.

Forms of documentary

Singulardocumentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/
Pluraldocumentaries
Countablecountable and uncountable

Documentaries in a sentence

  • Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.2014 December 4, Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply, “Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity”, in The New York Times, retrieved 28 Jun 2015
  • But most big documentaries these days aren’t documentaries any more in the way previous practitioners of the craft might have understood the word.2026 January 20, Marina Hyde, “It’s a Brooklyn v Beckham Inc disaster: what happens when the elephant in the room goes rogue”, in The...
  • Besides singing, he said he also likes watching documentaries on state television and studying voice dubbing.2020 December 3, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese farmer becomes online star for his stunning poem recital”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Longhua
  • Berlinger added that there is a risk in documentaries that are overcomposed.2015 June 26, Ben Kenigsberg, “Documentary Filmmakers Talk About Manipulation in Their Work”, in New York Times. From the entry overcomposed
  • Bikel's earlier documentaries were light on credentials and heavy on incredibility.1995 October 24, Walter Goodman, “TELEVISION REVIEW;Who Programmed Mary? Could It Be Satan?”, in The New York Times. From the entry incredibility

Meaning of documentary

  1. adjective Of, related to, or based on documents.
  2. adjective Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
  3. adjective Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

Full definition of documentary

Questions about the plural of documentary

What is the plural of documentary?
The plural of documentary is documentaries.
Is documentary countable?
Documentary is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: documentary (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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