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DOCTORATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
Synonyms:
doctor's degree; doctorate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("doctorate" is a kind of...):
academic degree; degree (an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doctorate"):
DMD; Doctor of Dental Medicine (a doctor's degree in dental medicine)
DDS; Doctor of Dental Surgery (a doctor's degree in dental surgery)
DD; Doctor of Divinity (a doctor's degree in religion)
DEd; Doctor of Education; EdD (a doctor's degree in education)
Doctor of Medicine; MD (a doctor's degree in medicine)
DMus; Doctor of Music; MusD (a doctor's degree in music)
AMusD; Doctor of Musical Arts (a doctor's degree in musical arts)
Doctor of Optometry; OD (a doctor's degree in optometry)
DO; Doctor of Osteopathy (doctor's degree in osteopathy)
D.A.; Doctor of Arts (a doctor's degree with a special disciplinary focus)
Doctor of Philosophy (a doctorate awarded for original contributions to knowledge)
Doctor of Public Health; DPH (a doctor's degree in preventive medicine)
Doctor of Theology; ThD; Doctor of Sacred Theology; STD (a doctor's degree in theology)
Derivation:
doctoral; doctorial (of or relating to a doctor or doctorate)
