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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

Example Sentences

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Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dolores Reade Hope, L.H.D., wife, mother and community leader.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For making it possible in a still young nation to celebrate old age, University of Massachusetts James Baldwin, L.H.D., writer.

From Time Magazine Archive

L.H.D., a leading light of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who offers himself as comic relief in our Clerical Vaudeville.

From The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition by Sinclair, Upton

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