Your birth certificate is an official document which gives details of your birth, such as the date and place of your birth, and the names of your parents.
birth certificate in British English
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
birth certificate in American English
an official document issued upon a person's birth, attesting to the date and place of birth, parentage, etc.
Examples of 'birth certificate' in a sentence
birth certificate
It seems to be some sort of crude birth certificate: `Anna Esther... Born 8 February 1941, Warsaw, Poland.
Sara MacDonald SEA MUSIC (2003)
`The envelope with my birth certificate had that name on the front, Rudi.
Sara MacDonald SEA MUSIC (2003)
Anna born again, with a crisp new English birth certificate, not difficult to obtain in those chaotic post-war years.
Sara MacDonald SEA MUSIC (2003)
) Attached to the document was a badly faded copy of Brady's birth certificate, which Augusta could only just decipher.
Joyce Carol Oates MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE (2003)
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birth certificate
British English: birth certificate /bɜːθ səˈtɪfɪkɪt/ NOUN
Your birth certificate is an official document which gives details of your birth, such as the date and place of your birth, and the names of your parents.