CREDENTIALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does credentials mean? 

• CREDENTIALS (noun)
  The noun CREDENTIALS has 1 sense:

1. a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts

  Familiarity information: CREDENTIALS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDENTIALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

certificate; certification; credential; credentials

Hypernyms ("credentials" is a kind of...):

document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))

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

certificate of incorporation (state approval of the articles of incorporation of a corporation)

birth certificate (a copy of the official document giving details of a person's birth)

diploma; sheepskin (a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study)

commission; military commission (an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces)

bill of health (a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival))

registration (a document certifying an act of registering)

teacher's certificate; teaching certificate (a certificate saying that the holder is qualified to teach in the public schools)

probate; probate will (a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate)

 Context examples 

No matter what your circumstance, Mars will help you get inside the offices of executives of the highest echelons so that you can present your credentials.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A collection of healthcare providers loosely based upon a criterion (i.e., specialty, department, credentials).

(Healthcare Provider Group, NCI Thesaurus)

A character string that describes the certification or specific licensed credentials of the qualified entity.

(Certificate License Text, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical assistant who has successfully completed an examination that earns them the credentials to become a certified medical assistant.

(Certified Medical Assistant, NCI Thesaurus)

The box we seek is to be landed in Varna, and to be given to an agent, one Ristics who will there present his credentials; and so our merchant friend will have done his part.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue; and producing his credentials under the signet royal, which he applied close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes without any signs of anger, but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a mile distant; whither it was agreed by his majesty in council that I must be conveyed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The bird complained to the dog of this bare-faced robbery, but nothing he said was of any avail, for the dog answered that he found false credentials on the sausage, and that was the reason his life had been forfeited.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A textual description of the investigator's credentials including, but not limited to the degree(s), board certification(s), license(s), diploma, and other official and/or legal documents indicating that the person has specific knowledge, skills, or abilities in the view of a certifying body.

(Investigator Official Credentials, NCI Thesaurus)

The full moon of March 9 may also bring a test to prove your credentials, such as the bar exam or any of the entrance exams for graduate school.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me, by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each other as any two in Europe, and each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy of their own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that of their neighbour; yet our emperor, standing upon the advantage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their credentials, and make their speech, in the Lilliputian tongue.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)