Usually means: Advanced research degree; highest education.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. phd: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. PhD, PhD: Merriam-Webster
  3. Ph.D: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. PhD: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. PhD: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Ph.D, PhD: Vocabulary.com
  7. PHD, PHd, PhD, Phd, Phd, phd: Wordnik
  8. PhD, phd: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ph.D, PhD: Wiktionary
  10. PhD: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Ph.D: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Ph.D, PhD, ph.d: Dictionary.com
  13. Ph.D: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ph.d, phd: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PHD (disambiguation), PHD, Ph.D, Ph.D. (Art Farmer album), Ph.D. (Ph.D. album), Ph.D. (band), PhD (Hon), PhD, Ph.d, Phd: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ph.d, Phd: Rhymezone
  17. PHD, Phd: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. ph.d, phd: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ph.d, phd: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Ph.D, PhD: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ph.D: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ph.D, PhD: Medical dictionary
  4. Ph.D: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PHD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.H.D, P.H.D, Ph.D, phd: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (PhD)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of Ph.D. [Doctor of Philosophy, a terminal research degree, the highest of academic degrees conferred by a college or university.]

Similar:
doctoral, doctorate, postgraduate, doctorial, postdoctoral, Mba, Harvard, postgrad, undergraduate, postdoc, more...

Opposite:
dropout, undergraduate, bachelor's degree

Types:
doctor of education, doctor of medicine, doctor of optometry, more...

Phrases:
phd thesis, phd student, md phd, PhD in management, phd candidate, more...

Adjectives:
unpublished, first, new, honorary, recent, traditional, second, young, interdisciplinary, time, based

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Similar:
doctoral, doctorate, postgraduate, doctorial, postdoctoral, Mba, Harvard, postgrad, undergraduate, postdoc, more...

Opposite:
dropout, undergraduate, bachelor's degree

Types:
doctor of education, doctor of medicine, doctor of optometry, more...

Phrases:
phd thesis, phd student, md phd, PhD in management, phd candidate, phd holder, phd candidate hurdles, more...

Adjectives:
unpublished, first, new, honorary, recent, traditional, second, young, interdisciplinary, time, based

Colors:
    crimson,     black,     gold,     maroon,     royal blue, more...



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