"death certificate" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: death certificates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} death certificate (plural death certificates)
  1. A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths. Wikipedia link: death certificate Categories (topical): Death Related terms: birth certificate Translations (document): doodsertifikaat (Afrikaans), ölüm şəhadətnaməsi (Azerbaijani), 死亡證 (Chinese Cantonese), 死亡证 (Chinese Cantonese), 死亡證明書 (Chinese Cantonese), 死亡证明书 (sei² mong⁴ zing³ ming⁴ syu¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 死亡證明書 (Chinese Mandarin), 死亡证明书 (sǐwáng zhèngmíngshū) (Chinese Mandarin), 死亡證書 (Chinese Mandarin), 死亡证书 (sǐwáng zhèngshū) (Chinese Mandarin), úmrtní list [masculine] (Czech), dødsattest [common-gender] (Danish), overlijdensakte [feminine] (Dutch), doodceel [feminine] (Dutch), kuolintodistus (Finnish), acte de décès [masculine] (French), Totenschein [masculine] (German), Todesbescheinigung [feminine] (German), Sterbeurkunde [feminine] (German), halotti bizonyítvány (Hungarian), surat kematian (Indonesian), akta kematian (Indonesian), 死亡証明書 (shibō shōmeisho) (alt: しぼうしょうめいしょ) (Japanese), посмр́тница (posmŕtnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), dødsattest [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dødsattest [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), akt zgonu [masculine] (Polish), atestado de óbito [masculine] (Portuguese), certidão de óbito [masculine] (Portuguese), свиде́тельство о сме́рти (svidételʹstvo o smérti) [neuter] (Russian), потврда о смрти [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), potvrda o smrti [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), certificado de defunción (Spanish), dödsattest [common-gender] (Swedish), dödsbevis [neuter] (Swedish), มรณบัตร (mɔɔ-rá-ná-bàt) (Thai), свідо́цтво про смерть (svidóctvo pro smertʹ) [neuter] (Ukrainian), giấy báo tử (Vietnamese)

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