Documentarian
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person whose profession is to create documentary films.
"As film tourism becomes a rising field of interest, this portion of documentary history is in danger of repetition unless documentarians utilize the nobler ideas of documentary in order to cultivate a deeper understanding between people, filmmaker, and audience."
- 2 A person who writes software documentation.
"After you have gone through all these steps, you are ready to tackle your company's documentation problems. You have also become an experienced systems documentarian..."
- 3 A person who cares about communication and documentation.
"Expanding the meaning of documentarian to include folks of any job title is important. Historically, people writing documentation might be called either a tech writer or a programmer, but there wasn’t a name for someone who cares about communication and documentation. We hope to change this."
- 4 Somebody who advocates the documentary hypothesis. attributive, sometimes
Example
More examples"As film tourism becomes a rising field of interest, this portion of documentary history is in danger of repetition unless documentarians utilize the nobler ideas of documentary in order to cultivate a deeper understanding between people, filmmaker, and audience."
Etymology
From documentary + -an. From document + -arian.
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