doctorate

English

Etymology

From Latin doctōrātus.

Pronunciation

• (noun:)
  • (UK) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/

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  • (US) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/

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• (verb:)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/
• Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate

Noun

doctorate (plural doctorates)

1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Derived terms

• honorary doctorate
• postdoctorate

Translations

highest degree awarded by a university faculty

• Arabic: دُكْتُورَاة f (duktūrāh)
• Burmese: ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ (para.gubhwai.)
• Catalan: doctorat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博士 (zh) (bóshì)

• Czech: doktorát (cs) m
• Danish: doktorgrad c
• Dutch: doctorsgraad (nl) m, doctoraat (nl) n
• Esperanto: doktoriĝo
• Finnish: tohtorinarvo, tohtoraatti, (informal) tohtori (fi)
• French: doctorat (fr) m
• Georgian: დოქტორის ხარისხი (dokṭoris xarisxi)
• German: Doktorgrad (de) m, Doktorat n, Doktortitel (de) m
• Greek: διδακτορικό (el) n (didaktorikó), διδακτορία (el) f (didaktoría)
• Hebrew: דּוֹקְטוֹרָט m (doktorát), דוקטור (he) m (doktór), תואר שלישי m (to'ár shlishí)
• Hungarian: doktorátus (hu)
• Icelandic: doktorsgráða f
• Ido: doktoreso (io)
• Italian: dottorato (it) m
• Japanese: 博士号 (ja) (はくしごう, hakushigō), 博士 (ja) (はくし, hakushi)
• Korean: 박사 (ko) (baksa)
• Macedonian: доктора́т m (doktorát)
• Malay: ijazah kedoktoran, siswazah​
• Maori: tohu tākuta, tākutatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: doktorgrad (no) m, doktortittel m

  Nynorsk: doktorgrad m or f, doktortittel m

• Persian: دکتری (fa) (doktori), دکترا (fa) (doktorâ)
• Polish: doktorat (pl) m
• Portuguese: doutorado (pt) m, doutoramento (pt) m
• Romanian: doctorat (ro) n
• Russian: до́кторская сте́пень f (dóktorskaja stépenʹ), доктора́т m (doktorát)
• Spanish: doctorado (es) m
• Swedish: doktorsgrad c, doktorstitel c
• Tibetan: མཁས་པའི་ལག་འཁྱེར (mkhas pa'i lag 'khyer), (honorific) མཁས་དབང་གི་ཕྱག་འཁྱེར (mkhas dbang gi phyag 'khyer), འབུམ་རམས་ཀྱི་ལག་འཁྱེར ('bum rams kyi lag 'khyer, literally “certificate of being learned in 100,000 things”)
• Turkish: doktora (tr)
• Ukrainian: до́кторський сту́пінь m (dóktorsʹkyj stúpinʹ), доктора́т (uk) m (doktorát)
• Vietnamese: tiến sĩ (vi)
• Volapük: dok (vo)
• Welsh: doethuriaeth (cy) f

Verb

doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)

1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     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.

Further reading

• “doctorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• corotated

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/, [d̪ɔkt̪oːˈräːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dok.toˈra.te/, [d̪okt̪oˈräːt̪e]

Verb

doctōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of doctōrō

Spanish

Verb

doctorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of doctorar combined with te