DOCTORATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

Derivation:

doctoral; doctorial (of or relating to a doctor or doctorate)