doctrine

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dǒkˈ -trǐn
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: doc‧trine
• Rhymes: -ɑktɹɪn, -ɒktɹɪn

Noun

doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)

1. (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

   The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.

   The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.

2. (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.

   What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?

   • 1560, John Knox, An Answere to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations Written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternall Predestination, London: Thomas Charde, published 1591, page 95:

     This one thing do we (compelled by your blaſphemous accuſations) repeat oftener then we would: to the end that indifferent men may ſee what doctrine it is, which you ſo maliciouſly impugne.

3. (countable) A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.

   the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine

Derived terms

• abstention doctrine
• Bell doctrine
• blue pencil doctrine
• castle doctrine
• doctrine of equivalents
• doctrine of foreign equivalents
• doctrine of necessity
• doctrine of philosophical necessity
• doctrine of signatures
• fairness doctrine
• first-sale doctrine (first sale doctrine)
• living tree doctrine
• original package doctrine
• professional rescuers doctrine
• prosperity doctrine
• spider in the web doctrine
• tender years doctrine
• wage-fund doctrine

Related terms

• docent
• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal, doctrinally
• doctrinize, doctrinization
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

belief

• Afrikaans: doktrine
• Albanian: doktrinë (sq) n
• Arabic: مَذْهَب (ar) m (maḏhab), عَقِيدَة (ar) f (ʕaqīda)
• Armenian: սկզբունք (hy) (skzbunkʻ), հիմնադրույթ (hy) (himnadruytʻ)
• Bashkir: фекер (feker), ҡараш (qaraş)
• Belarusian: дактры́на f (daktrýna), ве́ра f (vjéra)
• Bulgarian: доктри́на (bg) f (doktrína), вя́ра (bg) f (vjára)
• Burmese: ဝါဒ (my) (wada.), အယူဝါဒ (my) (a.yuwada.)
• Catalan: doctrina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教條／教条 (zh) (jiàotiáo), 教義／教义 (zh) (jiàoyì), 教理 (zh) (jiàolǐ)

• Czech: doktrína (cs) f, víra (cs) f
• Danish: doktrin n, læresætning c
• Dutch: doctrine (nl) f
• Estonian: doktriin
• Finnish: opinkappale (fi), periaate (fi)
• French: doctrine (fr) f
• Galician: doutrina (gl) f
• Georgian: დოქტრინა (dokṭrina)
• German: Doktrin (de) f
• Greek: δόγμα (el) n (dógma)

  Ancient: δόγμα n (dógma)

• Hebrew: דּוֹקְטְרִינָה (he) f (doktrína)
• Hindi: मत (hi) m (mat), वाद (hi) m (vād)
• Hungarian: doktrína (hu)
• Indonesian: doktrin (id)
• Irish: foirceadal m, teagasc m
• Italian: dottrina (it) f
• Japanese: 教義 (ja) (きょうぎ, kyōgi), ドクトリン (dokutorin), 教理 (ja) (きょうり, kyōri)
• Kazakh: доктрина (doktrina)
• Khmer: លទ្ធិ (km) (latthiʼ)
• Korean: 교의(敎義) (ko) (gyoui), 교리(敎理) (ko) (gyori)
• Kyrgyz: доктрина (ky) (doktrina)
• Lao: ລັດທິ (lo) (lat thi)
• Latvian: doktrīna f
• Lithuanian: doktrina (lt) f
• Macedonian: доктрина f (doktrina), вера f (vera)
• Maori: whakaakoranga
• Norman: doctrinne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: doktrine (no) m, læresetning m or f

  Nynorsk: doktrine m, læresetning f

• Pali: laddhi, vāda m
• Persian: دکترین (fa) (doktorin)
• Polish: doktryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: doutrina (pt) f
• Romanian: doctrină (ro) f
• Russian: доктри́на (ru) f (doktrína), ве́ра (ru) f (véra)
• Sanskrit: वाद (sa) m (vāda)
• Scottish Gaelic: teagasg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: доктри́на f, ве̏ра f, вје̏ра f

  Roman: doktrína (sh) f, vȅra (sh) f, vjȅra (sh) f

• Slovak: doktrína f, viera f
• Slovene: doktrina f, vera (sl) f
• Spanish: doctrina (es) f
• Swedish: doktrin (sv) c, lära (sv) c
• Tajik: доктрина (tg) (doktrina)
• Telugu: సిద్ధాంతం (te) (siddhāntaṁ)
• Thai: ลัทธิ (th) (lát-tí)
• Turkish: doktrin (tr), öğreti (tr), ilke (tr)
• Ukrainian: доктри́на f (doktrýna), ві́ра f (víra)
• Urdu: عَقیِدَہ ('aqīdā), مَذْہَبْ m (mazhab)
• Uzbek: doktrina (uz)
• Vietnamese: giáo lý (vi) (教理), chủ nghĩa (vi) (主義), giáo điều (vi) (教條)

body of beliefs or teachings

• Afrikaans: doktrine
• Albanian: doktrinë (sq) f
• Arabic: تَعْلِيم (ar) m (taʕlīm)
• Armenian: ուսմունք (hy) (usmunkʻ), դավանանք (hy) (davanankʻ), վարդապետություն (hy) (vardapetutʻyun), դոկտրին (hy) (doktrin)
• Azerbaijani: doktrina, təlim (az)
• Bashkir: тәғлимәт (təğlimət)
• Belarusian: вучэ́нне n (vučénnje), дактры́на f (daktrýna)
• Bulgarian: уче́ние (bg) n (učénie), доктри́на (bg) (doktrína)
• Burmese: အယူဝါဒ (my) (a.yuwada.)
• Catalan: doctrina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學說／学说 (zh) (xuéshuō)

• Czech: doktrína (cs) f, učení (cs) n
• Danish: lære (da) c, dogmatik c
• Dutch: leer (nl) f, doctrine (nl) f
• Estonian: doktriin
• Finnish: oppi (fi), doktriini (fi), opinkäsitys
• French: doctrine (fr) f
• Galician: doutrina (gl) f
• German: Lehre (de) f, Doktrin (de) f
• Hindi: शिक्षा (hi) f (śikṣā)
• Indonesian: doktrin (id)
• Irish: foirceadal m, teagasc m
• Italian: dottrina (it) f
• Japanese: 学説 (ja) (がくせつ, gakusetsu)
• Kazakh: доктрина (doktrina), оқу (kk) (oqu)
• Korean: 학설(學說) (ko) (hakseol)
• Kyrgyz: доктрина (ky) (doktrina), окуу (ky) (okuu), таалим (ky) (taalim)
• Latvian: doktrīna f, mācība f
• Lithuanian: doktrina (lt) f
• Macedonian: учење n (učenje), доктрина f (doktrina)
• Maori: whakaakoranga
• Norman: doctrinne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: doktrine (no) m, læresetning m or f, lære (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: doktrine m, læresetning f

• Persian: تعلیم (fa) (ta'lim), دکترین (fa) (doktorin)
• Polish: doktryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: doutrina (pt) f
• Romanian: doctrină (ro) f
• Russian: уче́ние (ru) n (učénije), доктри́на (ru) (doktrína)
• Scottish Gaelic: teagasg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀че̄ње n, доктри́на f

  Roman: ùčēnje (sh) n, doktrína (sh) f

• Slovak: doktrína f, učenie n
• Slovene: učenje n, doktrina f
• Spanish: doctrina (es) f
• Swedish: lära (sv) c, doktrin (sv) c
• Tagalog: aral (tl)
• Tajik: доктрина (tg) (doktrina), таълимот (taʾlimot), таълим (tg) (taʾlim)
• Tatar: тәгълимат (täğlimat)
• Telugu: సిద్ధాంతం (te) (siddhāntaṁ)
• Thai: ลัทธิ (th) (lát-tí)
• Turkish: doktrin (tr), öğreti (tr), talim (tr)
• Ukrainian: уче́ння n (učénnja), доктри́на f (doktrýna)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa (vi) (主義), học thuyết (vi) (學說)
• Welsh: athrawiaeth (cy) f, dysgeidiaeth (cy) f
• Yiddish: לערע n (lere)

Further reading

• “doctrine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “doctrine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Crediton, centroid, on credit

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctrīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɔkˈtri.nə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: doc‧tri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)

1. doctrine

   Synonyms: leer, leerstuk

   De doctrine stelt duidelijk dat...

   The doctrine clearly states that...

Derived terms

• doctrinair
• indoctrineren

French

Etymology

From Latin doctrina, diminutive from doctus, taught, perfect passive participle of docere, teach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔk.tʁin/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

Further reading

• “doctrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Verb

doctrine

1. inflection of doctrinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative