doctrine
Syllables: doc·trineUK/ˈdɒk.tɹɪn//ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/
doctrine noun: a belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
Noun
doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)
- A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.
- The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.
- The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
- What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
- This one thing do we (compelled by your blaſphemous accuſations) repeat oftener then we would: to the end that indifferent men may ſee what doctrine it is, which you ſo maliciouſly impugne.1560, John Knox, An Answere to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations Written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternall Predestination, London: Thomas Charde, published 1591, page 95
- A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
- the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine
doctrine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
doctrine in Hindi
- belief
- मत mat, वाद vād
- body of beliefs or teachings
- शिक्षा śikṣā
doctrine in Tamil
- கொள்கை, கோட்பாடு, சித்தமுடிவு, சித்தாந்தம், நெறி
doctrine in Urdu
- belief
- عَقِیدَہ 'aqīda, مَذْہَبْ mazhab
doctrine in Bengali
- belief
- মতবাদ motobad
More languagesFewer languages
- doctrine in Telugu
- సిద్ధాంతం siddhāntaṁ
- doctrine in Malayalam
- സിദ്ധാന്തം, പ്രമാണം
- doctrine in Kannada
- ಅರಿವು, ಕಲಿತ, ಕಟ್ಟುಪಾಡು, ತತ್ತ್ವ
- doctrine in Sanskrit
- वाद vāda
- doctrine in Sinhala
- දහම dahama
- doctrine in Assamese
- তত্ব totto
- doctrine in Tagalog
- aral
- doctrine in Arabic
- مَذْهَب maḏhab, عَقِيدَة ʕaqīda, تَعْلِيم taʕlīm
- doctrine in Indonesian
- doktrin
- doctrine in Thai
- ลัทธิ lát-tí
- doctrine in Vietnamese
- giáo lý, chủ nghĩa, giáo điều, học thuyết
- doctrine in Myanmar
- ဝါဒ wada., အယူဝါဒ a.yuwada.
Examples of doctrine in a sentence
- Your view on evolution is based on religious doctrines, not on scientific findings.
- The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict with his religious parents.
- Neo-liberals could integrate a lot of theorists into their doctrine, which upon serious examination would not stand.
Forms of doctrine
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Origin of doctrine
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
Words formed from doctrine
- abstention doctrine
- Alford doctrine
- Bell doctrine
- blue pencil doctrine
- castle doctrine
- counterdoctrine
- doctrinable
- doctrineless
- doctrine of equivalents
- doctrine of foreign equivalents
- doctrine of necessity
- doctrine of philosophical necessity
- doctrine of signatures
- doctrinism
- endoctrine
- fairness doctrine
- first-sale doctrine
- legal doctrine
- living tree doctrine
- Monroe Doctrine
- Monro-Kellie doctrine
- original package doctrine
- plain view doctrine
- professional rescuers doctrine
- prosperity doctrine
- spider in the web doctrine
- tender years doctrine
- undoctrined
- wage-fund doctrine
- Zapple doctrine
Phrases with doctrine
Questions about doctrine
- What does doctrine mean?
- Doctrine means a belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- What is doctrine in Hindi?
- Doctrine in Hindi is मत (mat), वाद (vād), शिक्षा (śikṣā). See Doctrine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is doctrine?
- Doctrine is a noun.
- How do you pronounce doctrine?
- Doctrine is pronounced /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doctrine?
- The plural of doctrine is doctrines.
Words near doctrine in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doctrine (page history and authors); doctrine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); doctrine (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); doctrine (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); දහම (Sinhala) (page history and authors); তত্ব (Assamese) (page history and authors). 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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