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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.

• enPR: dǒkˈ -trǐn
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: doc‧trine
• Rhymes: -ɑktɹɪn, -ɒktɹɪn

doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)

1. (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.

   • 2012, Joseph Agassi, Science in Flux:

     Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones. It progresses then because existing metaphysical doctrines are felt to be constricting frameworks, and thus unsatisfactory.

2. (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.

3. (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.

   the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine

• “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.

• Crediton, centroid, on credit

From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctrīna.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɔkˈtri.nə/

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• Hyphenation: doc‧tri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)

1. doctrine

   Synonyms: leer, leerstuk

   De doctrine stelt duidelijk dat...

   The doctrine clearly states that...

• doctrinair
• indoctrineren

Learned borrowing from Latin doctrīna.

• IPA^(key): /dɔk.tʁin/

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doctrine f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

   corps de doctrine ― body of doctrine

• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• endoctriner

• docteur

• “doctrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

doctrine

1. inflection of doctrinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative