Entering the doctorate is going to be a great challenge.
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Doctorate
//ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət//
Synonyms for "doctorate" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
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Related words (3)
Noun(1 words)
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57 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- دُكْتُورَاة noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Burmese
1 entries- ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Catalan
1 entries- doctorat noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 博士 noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Czech
1 entries- doktorát noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Danish
1 entries- doktorgrad noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Dutch
2 entries- doctoraat noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- doctorsgraad noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Esperanto
1 entries- doktoriĝo noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Finnish
3 entries- tohtoraatti noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- tohtori noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- tohtorinarvo noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
French
1 entries- doctorat noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Georgian
1 entries- დოქტორის ხარისხი noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
German
3 entries- Doktorat noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- Doktorgrad noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- Doktortitel noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Greek
2 entries- διδακτορία noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- διδακτορικό noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Hebrew
3 entries- דּוֹקְטוֹרָט noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- דוקטור noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- תואר שלישי noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Hungarian
1 entries- doktorátus noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Icelandic
1 entries- doktorsgráða noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Ido
1 entries- doktoreso noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Italian
1 entries- dottorato noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Japanese
2 entries- 博士 noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- 博士号 noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Korean
1 entries- 박사 noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Latin
1 entries- doctōrātus noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Macedonian
1 entries- доктора́т noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Malay
1 entries- ijazah kedoktoran noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Māori
2 entries- tohu tākuta noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- tākutatanga noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- doktorgrad noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- doktortittel noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- doktorgrad noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- doktortittel noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Persian
2 entries- دکترا noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- دکتری noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Polish
1 entries- doktorat noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Portuguese
2 entries- doutorado noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- doutoramento noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Romanian
1 entries- doctorat noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Russian
2 entries- до́кторская сте́пень noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- доктора́т noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Spanish
1 entries- doctorado noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Swedish
2 entries- doktorsgrad noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- doktorstitel noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Tibetan
2 entries- མཁས་དབང་གི་ཕྱག་འཁྱེར noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- མཁས་པའི་ལག་འཁྱེར noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Turkish
1 entries- doktora noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Ukrainian
2 entries- до́кторський сту́пінь noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
- доктора́т noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tiến sĩ noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Volapük
1 entries- dok noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Welsh
1 entries- doethuriaeth noun (highest degree awarded by a university faculty)
Sample sentences
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Being admitted to the doctorate is going to be a great challenge.
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Does he have a doctorate?
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He got his doctorate.
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