"doctorate" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/ [UK], /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/ [US], /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/ [UK], /ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-doctorate (noun).wav [Southern-England], en-us-doctorate.ogg [Mid-Atlantic], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-doctorate (verb).wav [Southern-England] Forms: doctorates [plural]
enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, dŏkʹtər-ət Etymology: From Latin doctōrātus. Etymology templates: {{m|la|doctoratus|doctōrātus}} doctōrātus Head templates: {{en-noun}} doctorate (plural doctorates)
  1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty. Categories (topical): Academic degrees Derived forms: honorary doctorate, postdoctorate Translations (highest degree awarded by a university faculty): دُكْتُورَاة (duktūrāh) [feminine] (Arabic), ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ (para.gubhwai.) (Burmese), doctorat [masculine] (Catalan), 博士 (bóshì) (Chinese Mandarin), doktorát [masculine] (Czech), doktorgrad [common-gender] (Danish), doctorsgraad [masculine] (Dutch), doctoraat [neuter] (Dutch), doktoriĝo (Esperanto), tohtorinarvo (Finnish), tohtoraatti (Finnish), tohtori [informal] (Finnish), doctorat [masculine] (French), დოქტორის ხარისხი (dokṭoris xarisxi) (Georgian), Doktorgrad [masculine] (German), Doktorat [neuter] (German), Doktortitel [masculine] (German), διδακτορικό (didaktorikó) [neuter] (Greek), διδακτορία (didaktoría) [feminine] (Greek), דּוֹקְטוֹרָט (doktorát) [masculine] (Hebrew), דוקטור (doktór) [masculine] (Hebrew), תואר שלישי (to'ár shlishí) [masculine] (Hebrew), doktorátus (Hungarian), doktorsgráða [feminine] (Icelandic), doktoreso (Ido), dottorato [masculine] (Italian), 博士号 (hakushigō) (alt: はくしごう) (Japanese), 博士 (hakushi) (alt: はくし) (Japanese), 박사 (baksa) (Korean), доктора́т (doktorát) [masculine] (Macedonian), ijazah kedoktoran (Malay), siswazah (Malay), tohu tākuta (Maori), tākutatanga (Maori), doktorgrad [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), doktortittel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), doktorgrad [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), doktortittel [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), دکتری (doktori) (Persian), دکترا (doktorâ) (Persian), doktorat [masculine] (Polish), doutorado [masculine] (Portuguese), doutoramento [masculine] (Portuguese), doctorat [neuter] (Romanian), до́кторская сте́пень (dóktorskaja stépenʹ) [feminine] (Russian), доктора́т (doktorát) [masculine] (Russian), doctorado [masculine] (Spanish), doktorsgrad [common-gender] (Swedish), doktorstitel [common-gender] (Swedish), མཁས་པའི་ལག་འཁྱེར (mkhas pa'i lag 'khyer) (Tibetan), མཁས་དབང་གི་ཕྱག་འཁྱེར (mkhas dbang gi phyag 'khyer) [honorific] (Tibetan), doktora (Turkish), до́кторський сту́пінь (dóktorsʹkyj stúpinʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), доктора́т (doktorát) [masculine] (Ukrainian), tiến sĩ (Vietnamese), dok (Volapük), doethuriaeth [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-doctorate-en-noun-ofz8gah- Disambiguation of Academic degrees: 96 4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English heteronyms Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 93 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 92 8 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 88 12

Verb

IPA: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/ [UK], /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/ [US], /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/ [UK], /ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-doctorate (noun).wav [Southern-England], en-us-doctorate.ogg [Mid-Atlantic], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-doctorate (verb).wav [Southern-England] Forms: doctorates [present, singular, third-person], doctorating [participle, present], doctorated [participle, past], doctorated [past]
enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, dŏkʹtər-ət Etymology: From Latin doctōrātus. Etymology templates: {{m|la|doctoratus|doctōrātus}} doctōrātus Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-doctorate-en-verb-yCzYSqzo

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          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
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          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "word": "doktoreso"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
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          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "word": "ijazah kedoktoran"
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        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "word": "siswazah"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "word": "tohu tākuta"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
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          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "word": "دکتری"
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        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "doktorâ",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "word": "دکترا"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "doutorado"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "doctorat"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dóktorskaja stépenʹ",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "до́кторская сте́пень"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "doktorát",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
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        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "doctorado"
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "doktorsgrad"
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        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "doktorstitel"
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        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "mkhas pa'i lag 'khyer",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "word": "མཁས་པའི་ལག་འཁྱེར"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "mkhas dbang gi phyag 'khyer",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty",
          "tags": [
            "honorific"
          ],
          "word": "མཁས་དབང་གི་ཕྱག་འཁྱེར"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "note": "འབུམ་རམས་ཀྱི་ལག་འཁྱེར ('bum rams kyi lag 'khyer, literally “certificate of being learned in 100,000 things”)",
          "sense": "highest degree awarded by a university faculty"
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          "roman": "dóktorsʹkyj stúpinʹ",
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          "text": "Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.",
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        }
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          "doctor"
        ]
      ],
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        "(archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/",
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        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "enpr": "dŏkʹtər-ĭt"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "dŏkʹtər-ət"
    }
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}

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