doctor of laws

1. 1.

   an honorary law degree

   SynonymsLLD

   Broaderhonorary degree

Questions about doctor of laws

What does doctor of laws mean?

doctor of laws means "an honorary law degree".

What is another word for doctor of laws?

Close synonyms include LLD. 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 laws a common word?

doctor of laws 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.