how to pronounce documentary

/ˌdɑːkjəˈmɛntɚiː/

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documentary is pronounced in five syllables

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An example use of documentary in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… to montage was the documentary and Dziga …”

meaning of documentary

A documentary is a film that tells a story through the use of interviews, reenactments, and other forms of historical or contemporary footage.

documentary frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word documentary occurs in english on average 18.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics documentary can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that documentary can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;