notary public

1. 1.

   someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions

   Synonymsnotary

   Broaderofficial

   law

Questions about notary public

What does notary public mean?

notary public means "someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions".

What is another word for notary public?

Close synonyms include notary. 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 notary public a common word?

notary public 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.