doctorate

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PronunciationEdit

(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

NounEdit

doctorate (plural doctorates)

The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

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

VerbEdit

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.