adj
Meaning 1
Relating to a doctorate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
doctoral
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdɒktəɹəl/
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UK: /ˈdɒktɹəl/
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UK: /ˌdɒkˈtɔɹəl/
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Canada, US: /ˈdɑktəɹəl/
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Canada, US: /ˈdɑktɹəl/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈdɔktəɹəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
of or relating to a doctor or doctorate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- doctoral dissertation
- doctorial candidates
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: doctorial
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From doctor + -al, probably modelled on Latin doctorālis.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: դոկտորական (doktorakan) — relating to a doctorate
- Catalan: doctoral — relating to a doctorate
- Esperanto: doktoriĝa — relating to a doctorate
- Finnish: tohtori- — relating to a doctorate
- French: doctoral — relating to a doctorate
- Georgian: სადოქტორო (sadokṭoro) — relating to a doctorate
- Hebrew: דוקטורט (doktorát) — relating to a doctorate
- Indonesian: doktoral — relating to a doctorate
- Italian: dottorale — relating to a doctorate
- Japanese: 博士 — relating to a doctorate
- Maltese: dottorali — relating to a doctorate
- Russian: до́кторский (dóktorskij) — relating to a doctorate
- Spanish: doctoral — relating to a doctorate
- Tibetan: འབུམ་རམས་པའི — relating to a doctorate
- Turkish: doktora — relating to a doctorate
- Welsh: doethuraidd — relating to a doctorate
Real reading context