doctorate

English

Pronunciation

  • (noun:)
    • (UK) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, IPA(key): /ˈdɒk.təɹ.ɪt/
    • (US) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ət, IPA(key): /ˈdɑk.təɹ.ət/
  • (verb:)
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒk.təɹ.eɪt/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɑk.təɹ.eɪt/
  • Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate

Noun

doctorate (plural doctorates)

  1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Derived terms

Translations

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.
    • Fuller
      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, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/, [dɔk.toːˈraː.tɛ]

Verb

doctōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of doctōrō
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