doctrine

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.

• enPR: dǒkˈ -trǐn
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/

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• Hyphenation: doc‧trine
• Rhymes: -ɑktɹɪn, -ɒktɹɪn

doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)

1. (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

   The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.

   The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.

2. (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.

   What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?

   • 1560, John Knox, An Answere to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations Written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternall Predestination, London: Thomas Charde, published 1591, page 95:

     This one thing do we (compelled by your blaſphemous accuſations) repeat oftener then we would: to the end that indifferent men may ſee what doctrine it is, which you ſo maliciouſly impugne.

3. (countable) 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.

   the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine

• “doctrine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “doctrine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Crediton, centroid, on credit

From Middle Dutch doctrine, from Middle French doctrine, from Latin doctrīna.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɔkˈtri.nə/

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• Hyphenation: doc‧tri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)

1. doctrine

   Synonyms: leer, leerstuk

   De doctrine stelt duidelijk dat...

   The doctrine clearly states that...

• doctrinair
• indoctrineren

From Latin doctrina, diminutive from doctus, taught, perfect passive participle of docere, teach.

• IPA^(key): /dɔk.tʁin/

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doctrine f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

• “doctrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

doctrine

1. inflection of doctrinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative