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  • L.H.D.
    L.H.D.
    abbreviation
    Doctor of Humane Letters.
  • lhd
    lhd
    abbreviation
    left-hand drive

L.H.D.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Doctor of Humane Letters.

  2. Doctor of Humanities.


lhd British  

abbreviation

  1. left-hand drive

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of L.H.D.

From New Latin Litterārum Humāniōrum Doctor

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Smith College Pearl Anderson Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction in the state of Washington L.H.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

James Reston, L.H.D., columnist and vice president of the New York Times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Agnes George de Mille, L.H.D., dancer and choreographer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dorothy Height, L.H.D., civil rights activist and president of the National Council of Negro Women.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brownell is both L.H.D. and Litt.D., thus surpassing Samuel Johnson by one point, and Hazlitt, Coleridge and Malone by two.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

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