Other forms: doctorates
A doctorate is the highest university qualification, won by research. Take a doctorate, an honorary doctorate, complete the doctorate.
It is awarded for an original contribution to knowledge rather than for coursework, which is why it takes years and why the thesis must be defended in person. An honorary doctorate is given without any of that, and the recipient is not a doctor.
1noundoctorateThe highest university qualification, won by research.
“After five years of research, she was finally awarded her doctorate in chemistry.”
doctorate is a qualification.
Latin doctoratus comes from doctor, a teacher, from docere, to teach. Doctrine and document are relatives.
From Latin doctoratus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA