birth certificate

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   a copy of the official document giving details of a person's birth

   Broadercertificate

Questions about birth certificate

What does birth certificate mean?

birth certificate means "a copy of the official document giving details of a person's birth".

Is birth certificate a common word?

birth certificate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.