DOCTORATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doctorate mean? 

• DOCTORATE (noun)
  The noun DOCTORATE has 1 sense:

1. one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university

  Familiarity information: DOCTORATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCTORATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

doctor's degree; doctorate

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)

Doctor of Theology; ThD; Doctor of Sacred Theology; STD (a doctor's degree in theology)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) - a licensed registered nurse who has graduate preparation (a master's or a doctorate) in nursing as a CNS.

(Clinical Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional doctorate that prepares the student for academic, administrative or specialized positions in education.

(Doctor of Education, NCI Thesaurus)

A courtesy title for a person who has received a doctorate degree or who practices medicine.

(Doctor, NCI Thesaurus)

A registered nurse who has a master's or doctorate degree in a clinical field of nursing and has been certified by the Board of Registered Nursing.

(Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional doctorate typically awarded by an accredited U.S. law school after successfully completing three years of post-graduate law study.

(Doctor of Law, NCI Thesaurus)

To provide support to mid-career health-professional doctorates or equivalent who are typically at the Associate Professor level or the equivalent for protected time to devote to patient-oriented research and to act as research mentors primarily for clinical residents, clinical fellows and/or junior clinical faculty.

(Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research, NCI Thesaurus)

The game began to be developed almost two years ago during a doctorate course at the University of Kyushu, in Japan, by Sylker Teles, game design professor at the Analysis Center, Research and Technological Innovation Foundation (FUCAPI).

(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)

The ability to sniff out mates with different immune genes could make their offspring's immune systems more diverse and able to fight more pathogens, said first author Kathleen Grogan, who did the research while working on her doctorate with professor Christine Drea at Duke.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)