diff --git a/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl b/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl
index 69939b60015b8..ee2064605c7c8 100644
--- a/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl
+++ b/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: https://julialang.org/license
 
+"""
+This module provides universally unique identifiers (UUIDs),
+along with functions creating the different variants.
+"""
 module UUIDs
 
 using Random