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doctorate

[ dok-ter-it ]

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noun

any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school.
an honorary degree conferring the title of doctor upon the recipient, as with the LL.D. degree.

doctorate

/ ˈdɒktərɪt; -trɪt /

the highest academic degree in any field of knowledge Also calleddoctor's degree

First recorded in 1670–80; from Medieval Latin doctōrātus; doctor, -ate ³

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

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

Now Hunter wanted to confer an honorary doctorate on me, and I needed to find the words to properly convey how honored I felt.

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

Four bronze stars later, he earned a chemistry doctorate and joined the FBI.

Copernicus made his medical studies in Ferrara and Padua, and obtained his doctorate with honors from Ferrara.

He studied at the École Polytechnique and at the École des Mines, and later received his doctorate in mathematics in 1879.

She had already earned her doctorate, while I was still struggling with the tag ends of my thesis.

A brilliant mathematician, he had taken his doctorate without difficulty, and his thesis had even attracted some attention.

He might obtain the doctorate in both branches of law in ten years (Rashdall i. 221-222).

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