the highest academic degree in any field of knowledge
Also called: doctor's degree
doctor's degree in American English
noun
1.
any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school
2.
an honorary degree conferring the title of doctor upon the recipient, as with the LL.D. degree
3.
a degree awarded to a graduate of a school of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary science
Also called (for defs. 1, 2): doctorate
Examples of 'doctor's degree' in a sentence
doctor's degree
It's a doctor's degree, it's the whole of high school, it's a long time.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
It would be nice to have the doctor's degree on the wall next to the discs.