doctorate

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Pronunciation

• • (British) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, IPA: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/
  • (America) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ət, IPA: /ˈdɑk.təɹ.ət/
  • (British) IPA: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈdɑk.təɹ.eɪt/

Noun

doctorate (plural doctorates)

1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Translations

• French: doctorat
• German: Doktorgrad, Doktorat, Doktortitel
• Italian: dottorato
• Portuguese: doutorado, doutoramento
• Russian: до́кторская сте́пень
• Spanish: doctorado

Verb

doctorate (doctorates, present participle doctorating; past and past participle doctorated)

1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.

   • 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.

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