doctorate

noun
/ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/UK/ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/US/ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/UK/ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/US

Etymology

From Latin doctōrātus.

  1. derived from doctōrātus

Definitions

  1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

  2. To make (someone) into a doctor.

    • He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.
    • Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at doctorate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01doctorate02faculty03university04conferral05conferring06confer07consult08doctor

A definitional loop anchored at doctorate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at doctorate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA