Meanings
plural dossiers
- A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman
Origin
- Frenchdossier
- Englishdossier
Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مِلَفّ
- مِلَفّ (milaff)collection of papers and/or other sources
Bulgarian досие́
- досие́ (dosié)collection of papers and/or other sources
Catalan dossier, expedient
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
- expedientcollection of papers and/or other sources
Chinese Mandarin 卷宗, 檔案 /档案
- 卷宗 (juànzōng)collection of papers and/or other sources
- 檔案 /档案 (dàng'àn)collection of papers and/or other sources
Czech spis, fascikl
- spiscollection of papers and/or other sources
- fasciklcollection of papers and/or other sources
- aktacollection of papers and/or other sources
Danish dossier
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
Dutch dossier, map
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
- mapcollection of papers and/or other sources
- foldercollection of papers and/or other sources
Estonian toimik
- toimikcollection of papers and/or other sources
Finnish kansio, asiakirjat
- kansiocollection of papers and/or other sources
- asiakirjatcollection of papers and/or other sources
- paperitcollection of papers and/or other sources
French dossier
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
German Dossier, Akte
- Dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
- Aktecollection of papers and/or other sources
Greek ντοσιέ
- ντοσιέ (ntosié)collection of papers and/or other sources
Hindi प्रलेख, पत्र
- प्रलेख (pralekh)collection of papers and/or other sources
- पत्र (patra)collection of papers and/or other sources
Hungarian dosszié, akta
- dossziécollection of papers and/or other sources
- aktacollection of papers and/or other sources
Indonesian dosir
- dosircollection of papers and/or other sources
Japanese 一件書類
- 一件書類 (ikken shorui)collection of papers and/or other sources
Korean 일건서류
- 일건서류 (ilgeonseoryu)collection of papers and/or other sources
Persian دوسیه
- دوسیه (dosye)collection of papers and/or other sources
Polish akta, dokumentacja
- aktacollection of papers and/or other sources
- dokumentacjacollection of papers and/or other sources
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
Portuguese dossiê, pasta
- dossiêcollection of papers and/or other sources
- pastacollection of papers and/or other sources
Romanian dosar
- dosarcollection of papers and/or other sources
Russian досье́, де́ло
- досье́ (dosʹjé)collection of papers and/or other sources
- де́ло (délo)collection of papers and/or other sources
- па́пка (pápka)collection of papers and/or other sources
Slovak spis
- spiscollection of papers and/or other sources
Spanish dosier, expediente
- dosiercollection of papers and/or other sources
- expedientecollection of papers and/or other sources
- archivocollection of papers and/or other sources
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
Swedish dossier, dossié
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
- dossiécollection of papers and/or other sources
Turkish dosya
- dosyacollection of papers and/or other sources
Ukrainian досьє́
- досьє́ (dosʹjé)collection of papers and/or other sources
Welsh coflen, dossier
- coflencollection of papers and/or other sources
- dossiercollection of papers and/or other sources
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
dossier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dossier
“dossier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dossier. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dossier,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dossier.
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