doctrine
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/
The English word “doctrine” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
- The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
- A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
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More English words
- doctrinarily
- doctrinarity
- doctrinary
- doctrination
- doctrine of equivalents
- doctrine of foreign equivalents
- doctrine of necessity
- doctrine of philosophical necessity
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