birth certificate

noun

an official form recording the birth of a baby and containing pertinent data, as name, sex, date, place, and parents.

Origin of birth certificate

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Examples from the Web for birth certificate

Contemporary Examples of birth certificate

While in the House, he was something of a birth-certificate “truther.”
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Historical Examples of birth certificate

Now the first requisite here for marriage is the birth-certificate.
Debts of Honor
Maurus Jkai
The young arrival a few days later was described on his birth-certificate as "John Washington."
The Little Missis
Charlotte Skinner
Every water-marked sheet of paper carries in itself its birth-certificate; but the difficulty is to decipher it.
The Man With the Black Feather
Gaston Leroux
Does a birth-certificate, a marriage-contract or an inventory of wealth represent a person?
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Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
But the father had equally little right to the name of Balzac at all, for his birth-certificate has been recently discovered.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2
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British Dictionary definitions for birth certificate

birth certificate

noun

an official form giving details of the time and place of a person's birth, and his or her name, sex, mother's name and (usually) father's name

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