doctrine
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French -, from Latin doctrina, from doctor ("a teacher"), from docere ("to teach"); see doctor.
Pronunciation Noundoctrine
- (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.
- (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?
- (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
- docent
- docile
- doctor
- doctorate
- doctrinaire
- doctrinal, doctrinally
- doctrinize, doctrinization
- document
- indoctrinate
- French: doctrine
- German: Doktrin
- Italian: dottrina
- Portuguese: doutrina
- Russian: доктри́на
- Spanish: doctrina
- French: doctrine
- German: Lehre, Doktrin
- Italian: dottrina
- Portuguese: doutrina
- Russian: уче́ние
- Spanish: doctrina
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