doctorate

• (noun:)
  • (UK) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.təɹ.ɪt/
  • (US) enPR: dŏkʹtər-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.təɹ.ət/
• (verb:)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.təɹ.eɪt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.təɹ.eɪt/
• Hyphenation: doc‧tor‧ate

doctorate (plural doctorates)

1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

• honorary doctorate
• postdoctorate

doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)

1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
   • Fuller

     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.

• doctorate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• corotated

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dok.toːˈraː.te/, [dɔk.toːˈraː.tɛ]

doctōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of doctōrō