doctoral

Relating to a doctorate.

Adjective

  1. Relating to a doctorate.
  2. 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,...

Origin

From doctor + -al, probably modelled on Latin doctorālis.

Hyponyms

postdoctoral

Related

doctor Doctor

Derived

doctoral advisor doctorally doctoral thesis nondoctoral predoctoral