doctorate

From Latin doctōrātus.

• (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

doctorate (plural doctorates)

1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

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.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “doctorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• corotated

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɔk.toːˈraː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪ok.t̪oˈraː.t̪e]

doctōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of doctōrō

doctorate

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