doctoral
Syllables: doc·tor·alUK/ˈdɒktəɹəl//ˈdɑktəɹəl/
doctoral adjective: relating to a doctorate.
Adjective
doctoral (not comparable)
- Relating to a doctorate.
- Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician.
- We have no need of doctorall consultations or collegian interpretations. Our senses tell us where it is and what it is.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
doctoral meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi
doctoral in Bengali
- ডক্টরাল
doctoral in Telugu
- డాక్టోరల్
doctoral in Malayalam
- ഡോക്ടറൽ
doctoral in Punjabi
- ਡਾਕਟੋਰਲ
More languagesFewer languages
- doctoral in Gujarati
- ડોક્ટરલ
- doctoral in Odia
- ଡକ୍ଟରାଲ
- doctoral in Nepali
- डाक्टोरल
- doctoral in Indonesian
- doktoral
Examples of doctoral in a sentence
- She spent three years writing her doctoral dissertation.
- Her doctoral thesis concerned the origins of the cosmic background.
- He was a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg at the time of the research.
Origin of doctoral
From doctor + -al, probably modelled on Latin doctorālis.
Words formed from doctoral
Phrases with doctoral
Questions about doctoral
- What does doctoral mean?
- Doctoral means relating to a doctorate.
- What is doctoral in Bengali?
- Doctoral in Bengali is ডক্টরাল. See Doctoral meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is doctoral?
- Doctoral is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce doctoral?
- Doctoral is pronounced /ˈdɒktəɹəl/ (UK).
Words near doctoral in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: doctoral (page history and authors); doctoral (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doctoral (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doctoral (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doctoral (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doctoral (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doctoral (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doctoral (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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