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Definition of Doctorate
1. Noun. One of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university.
Generic synonyms: Academic Degree, Degree
Specialized synonyms: Dmd, Doctor Of Dental Medicine, Dds, Doctor Of Dental Surgery, Dd, Doctor Of Divinity, Ded, Doctor Of Education, Edd, Doctor Of Medicine, Md, Dmus, Doctor Of Music, Musd, Amusd, Doctor Of Musical Arts, Doctor Of Optometry, Od, Do, Doctor Of Osteopathy, D.a., Doctor Of Arts, Doctor Of Philosophy, Doctor Of Public Health, Dph, Doctor Of Theology, Thd, Doctor Of Sacred Theology, Std
Derivative terms: Doctoral, Doctorial
Definition of Doctorate
1. n. The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
2. v. t. To make (one) a doctor.
Definition of Doctorate
1. Noun. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doctorate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Doctorate
Literary usage of Doctorate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Bologna required six years of study for the doctorate in canon law, and seven or
eight for the doctorate in civil law; the student might begin his course at ..."
2. Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering: An Update (1993)
"Science and engineering doctorate recipients, by field of doctorate and ...
Primary source of support for US citizen doctorate holders in science and ..."
3. Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896: Life-sketches Written at the by Gustav Philipp Körner (1909)
"GOLDEN JUBILEE OP THE HEIDELBERG Doctorate (1882) On the 22nd of May it was fifty
years since I had obtained my degree of Doctor of Law at Heidelberg. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... Lord Lister and Sir John Evans by the two universities located at Toronto,
McGill University will this week confer on them the doctorate of laws. ..."
5. A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge by Walter William Rouse Ball (1889)
"No one could obtain the doctorate in any subject who did not really know it as
it was then understood. These courses took from eight to ten years, ..."
6. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"He was principally known from his studies upon decapitation—particularly his
thesis for the doctorate, La mort par la decapitation, which attracted marked ..."
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