WRITTEN RECORD

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does written record mean? 

• WRITTEN RECORD (noun)
  The noun WRITTEN RECORD has 1 sense:

1. a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events

  Familiarity information: WRITTEN RECORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRITTEN RECORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written document preserving knowledge of facts or events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

written account; written record

Hypernyms ("written record" is a kind of...):

record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "written record"):

paper trail (the written evidence of someone's activities)

worksheet (a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project)

interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)

statute book (a record of the whole body of legislation in a given jurisdiction)

minute book (a book in which minutes have been written)

minutes; proceedings; transactions (a written account of what transpired at a meeting)

register; registry (an official written record of names or events or transactions)

copy; transcript (a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record))

time sheet (a record of the hours worked by employees)

timecard (a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day)

blotter; charge sheet; day book; police blotter; rap sheet (the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station)

note (a brief written record)

log (a written record of messages sent or received)

log (a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane))

entry (an item inserted in a written record)

dossier (a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record))

chronology (a record of events in the order of their occurrence)

casebook (a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work)

Instance hyponyms:

Domesday Book; Doomsday Book (record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror)

 Context examples 

A brief written record.

(Note, NCI Thesaurus)

A written record of events.

(Log, NCI Thesaurus)