doctorate
English
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- honorary doctorate
- postdoctorate
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.
- Fuller
- 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.
- Fuller
Further reading
- doctorate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/, [dɔk.toːˈraː.tɛ]
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