doctorate

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin doctōrātus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (noun:)
    • (UK) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, IPA(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/
      • (file)
    • (US) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ət, IPA(key): /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/
      • (file)
  • (verb:)
  • Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate

Noun[edit]

doctorate (plural doctorates)

  1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

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Verb[edit]

doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)

  1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
    • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: [] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
      He was bred [] in Oxford and there doctorated.
    • 1886, Simon Somerville Laurie, Lectures on the Rise and Early Constitution of Universities:
      Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.

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Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

doctōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of doctōrō

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

doctorate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of doctorar combined with te