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DOCTOR'S DEGREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does doctor's degree mean?
• DOCTOR'S DEGREE (noun)
The noun DOCTOR'S DEGREE has 1 sense:
1. one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
Familiarity information: DOCTOR'S DEGREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("doctor's degree" 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 "doctor's degree"):
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)
Context examples
The doctor's degree classification includes such degrees in any field.
(Doctorate Degree, NCI Thesaurus)
No, returned Steerforth, the advocates are civilians—men who have taken a doctor's degree at college—which is the first reason of my knowing anything about it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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