doctor of divinity

1. 1.

   a doctor's degree in religion

   SynonymsDD

   Broaderdoctor's degree

Questions about doctor of divinity

What does doctor of divinity mean?

doctor of divinity means "a doctor's degree in religion".

What is another word for doctor of divinity?

Close synonyms include DD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doctor of divinity a common word?

doctor of divinity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.