doctor's degree

Questions about doctor's degree

What does doctor's degree mean?

doctor's degree means "one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university".

What is another word for doctor's degree?

Close synonyms include doctorate. 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's degree a common word?

doctor's degree 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.