Etymology
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From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
Pronunciation
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doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
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belief
- Afrikaans: doktrine
- Albanian: doktrinë (sq) n
- Arabic: مَذْهَب (ar) m (maḏhab), عَقِيدَة (ar) f (ʕaqīda)
- Armenian: սկզբունք (hy) (skzbunkʿ), հիմնադրույթ (hy) (himnadruytʿ)
- 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)
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body of beliefs or teachings
- Afrikaans: doktrine
- Albanian: doktrinë (sq) f
- Arabic: تَعْلِيم (ar) m (taʕlīm)
- Armenian: ուսմունք (hy) (usmunkʿ), դավանանք (hy) (davanankʿ), վարդապետություն (hy) (vardapetutʿyun), 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)
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Further reading
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- “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.
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