Definitions for doctorate

doctorate doc·tor·ate

Spelling: [dok-ter-it]
IPA: /ˈdɒk tər ɪt/

Doctorate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 348 anagrams from letters in doctorate (acdeoortt).

Definitions for doctorate

noun

  1. Doctor of Philosophy (def 1).
  2. doctor's degree (defs 1, 2).

Origin of doctorate

First recorded in 1670-80, doctorate is from the Medieval Latin word doctorātus degree of doctor. See doctor, -ate

Examples for doctorate

Before he was twenty-one his learning had gained for him a doctorate in philosophy.

Indeed I shall seek a doctorate in Theology, if the gods so will it.

The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

One old soldier is on the path to a doctorate in mathematics and another is a trained underwater welder.

My dad has a doctorate and my mom had a masters in their native country.

The author, Dr. David Ribner, has a doctorate in social work and is an ordained Rabbi.

The doctorate of music was first conferred at Oxford and Cambridge.

In 1818 he received the doctorate of theology and of canonical law.

He was, he explained, a student of philology preparing for his doctorate.

Dr. Grenci obtained her doctorate in clinical sexology in 2007.

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