doctorate
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English
Etymology
From Latin doctōrātus.
Pronunciation
- (noun:)
- (verb:)
- Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate
Noun
doctorate (plural doctorates)
- The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
Derived terms
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.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: J G W L and W G, 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.
Further reading
- “doctorate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dok.toˈra.te/,
Verb
doctōrāte
Spanish
Verb
doctorate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of doctorar combined with te