Birth Certificate

Definition: Birth Certificate

Birth Certificate

Noun

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

Specialty Definitions: Birth Certificate

Domain	Definitions
Public Administration	The 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. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Birth certificate

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In most forms of government, the Birth Certificate is an official legal document usually describing

Name at Birth
Date of Birth
Sex
Place of Birth (City, Region, Country)
Birth Registration Number
Legal Parent(s)

The official birth certificate is stored at a government record office. The person also holds an official birth certificate.

In Canada and the United States of America, it is stored with the state/province's government.

The birth certificate is used to authenticate your identity and nationality, and assist with obtaining government ids, such as passport and driver's license. With it, you are usually naturalized with the country of birth, but some nations are changing that law.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Birth certificate."

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Modern Usage: Birth Certificate

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Forty-two! I can show you my birth certificate. (The Trouble with Harry; writing credit: Jack Trevor Story; John Michael Hayes)

I'm afraid you're going to have to show more than your birth certificate to convince a man of that. (The Trouble with Harry; writing credit: Jack Trevor Story; John Michael Hayes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Birth Certificate

Domain	Title
Books	Comparability of the Birth Certificate and 1988 Maternal and Infant Health Survey (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	Birth Certificate with Curl & Tooth Boxes in Rosewood Keepsake Box (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Birth Certificate

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		According to new Education Secretariat guidelines, any child may now be registered for public school with a Mexican or foreign birth certificate. (references)
Children	Morocco	Civil status is necessary to obtain a birth certificate, passport, or marriage license. (references)
Civil Liberties	Macedonia	Since that time, under instructions from the Ministry of Interior, persons holding a government photo identification card--or children with a birth certificate traveling with parents with photo identification--were able to enter the country. (references)
Human Rights	Paraguay	In August the Committee discovered a 17-year-old who had been enlisted with a falsified birth certificate. (references)
Indigenous People	Peru	Many indigenous persons lack basic documents such as a birth certificate or a voter's registration card that normally would identify them as full citizens and enable them to play an active part in society. (references)
Minorities	Dominican Republic	In July Secretary of Education and Vice President Milagros Ortiz-Bosch announced that all children would be allowed to enroll in school through the eighth grade, whether or not they had a birth certificate. (references)
Travel	Canada	To expedite border crossings, native-born US citizens should carry either a passport, or a birth certificate and photo ID, such as a driver's license. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Birth Certificate

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Tim McGraw	My mother used to keep Christmas presents in her closet. I was going through the closet looking for Christmas presents. I ran across my birth certificate. That's how I found out.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Birth Certificate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
birth certificate	6,671	kansas birth certificate	67
california birth certificate	327	pa birth certificate	66
birth certificate copy	263	birth certificate arkansas	65
texas birth certificate	227	georgia birth certificate	64
canadian birth certificate	149	birth certificate online	64
virginia birth certificate	131	birth certificate quebec	63
florida birth certificate	130	maryland birth certificate	62
birth certificate ontario	127	missouri birth certificate	62
ohio birth certificate	121	birth certificate free	59
new york birth certificate	112	los angeles county birth certificate	59
pennsylvania birth certificate	111	birth certificate tennessee	53
louisiana birth certificate	99	application for birth certificate	53
certified birth certificate	86	indiana birth certificate	53
illinois birth certificate	85	obtain birth certificate	52
michigan birth certificate	81	birth certificate replacement	51
obtaining birth certificate	75	order a birth certificate	51
arizona birth certificate	74	new jersey birth certificate	50
oklahoma birth certificate	72	oregon birth certificate	49
canada birth certificate	72	get birth certificate	49
kentucky birth certificate	72	washington state birth certificate	46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Birth Certificate

Language		Translations for "birth certificate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏شهادة الميلاد. (various references)

Danish		fødselsattest. (various references)

Dutch		geboortebewijs, geboorteakte, akte van geboorte. (various references)

Finnish		syntymätodistus, papintodistus (extract from the church register). (various references)

French		acte de naissance. (various references)

German		Geburtsurkunde, Geburtsschein. (various references)

Greek		πιστοποιητικό γεννήσεως. (various references)

Italian		certificato di nascita, atto di nascita. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		出�"�証明書 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅっしょうしょうめいしょ, しゅっせいしょうめいしょ. (various references)

Manx		screeuyn ruggyree. (various references)

Pig Latin		irthbay ertificatecay

Portuguese		certidão de nascimento. (various references)

Russian		свидетельство о рождении (certificate of birth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rodni list, krštenica. (various references)

Spanish		certificado de nacimiento. (various references)

Swedish		personbevis, åldersbetyg. (various references)

Turkish		nüfus kaydı, doğum belgesi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Birth Certificate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-e-f-h-i-i-i-r-r-t-t-t"
	-5 letters: certificate.
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