doctorate
English
Pronunciation
- (noun:)
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Audio (UK): (file)
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, IPA(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/
- (verb:)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/
Audio (UK): (file)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈdɑk.təɹ.eɪt/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/
- Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate
Noun
doctorate (plural doctorates)
- The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
Derived terms
Translations
highest degree awarded by a university faculty
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Verb
doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)
- (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.
Further reading
- “doctorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/, [d̪ɔkt̪oːˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dok.toˈra.te/, [d̪okt̪oˈräːt̪e]
Verb
(deprecated template usage) doctōrāte
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