doctorate

doctorate

English

Pronunciation

• (noun:)
  • (UK) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/

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  • (US) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.təɹ.ət/
• (verb:)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.təɹ.eɪt/
• Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate

Noun

doctorate (plural doctorates)

1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Derived terms

• honorary doctorate
• postdoctorate

Translations

highest degree awarded by a university faculty

Arabic: دُكْتُورَاة‎ f (duktūrāh) Burmese: ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ (para.gubhwai.) Catalan: doctorat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 博士 (zh) (bóshì) Czech: doktorát (cs) m Danish: doktorgrad c Dutch: doctorsgraad m Esperanto: doktoriĝo Finnish: tohtorinarvo, tohtoraatti, (informal) tohtori (fi) French: doctorat (fr) m German: Doktorgrad (de) m, Doktorat n, Doktortitel (de) m Greek: διδακτορικό (el) n (didaktorikó), διδακτορία (el) f (didaktoría) Hebrew: דּוֹקְטוֹרָט‎ m (doktorát) Hungarian: doktorátus (hu) Icelandic: doktorsgráða f Ido: doktoreso (io) Italian: dottorato (it) m Japanese: 博士号 (はくしごう, hakushigō), 博士 (ja) (はくし, hakushi) Korean: 박사 (ko) (baksa) Macedonian: доктора́т m (doktorát) Maori: tohu tākuta, tākutatanga Norwegian: Bokmål: doktorgrad (no) m, doktortittel m Nynorsk: doktorgrad m or f, doktortittel m Polish: doktorat (pl) m Portuguese: doutorado (pt) m, doutoramento (pt) m Romanian: doctorat (ro) n Russian: до́кторская сте́пень f (dóktorskaja stépenʹ), доктора́т m (doktorát) Spanish: doctorado (es) m Swedish: doktorsgrad c, doktorstitel c Tibetan: མཁས་པའི་ལག་འཁྱེར c (mkhas pa'i lag 'khyer) (plain), མཁས་དབང་གི་ཕྱག་འཁྱེར c (mkhas dbang gi phyag 'khyer) (honorific) Turkish: doktora (tr) Ukrainian: до́кторський сту́пінь m (dóktorsʹkyj stúpinʹ), доктора́т (uk) m (doktorát) Vietnamese: tiến sĩ (vi) Volapük: dok (vo) Welsh: doethuriaeth (cy) f

Verb

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 418859860:

     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

Anagrams

• corotated

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/, [d̪ɔkt̪oːˈräːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dok.toˈra.te/, [d̪okt̪oˈräːt̪e]

Verb

doctōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of doctōrō