historical document

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   writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)

   Synonymshistorical paperhistorical record

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Questions about historical document

What does historical document mean?

historical document means "writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)".

What is another word for historical document?

Close synonyms include historical paper, historical record. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is historical document a common word?

historical document is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it.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.