doctrine

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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

Noun

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.

   • 2012, Joseph Agassi, Science in Flux:

     Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones. It progresses then because existing metaphysical doctrines are felt to be constricting frameworks, and thus unsatisfactory.

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

Derived terms

• abstention doctrine
• Bell doctrine
• blue pencil doctrine
• castle doctrine
• counterdoctrine
• doctrinable
• doctrineless
• doctrine of equivalents
• doctrine of foreign equivalents
• doctrine of necessity
• doctrine of philosophical necessity
• doctrine of signatures
• doctrinism
• endoctrine
• fairness doctrine
• first-sale doctrine (first sale doctrine)
• living tree doctrine
• original package doctrine
• professional rescuers doctrine
• prosperity doctrine
• spider in the web doctrine
• tender years doctrine
• undoctrined
• wage-fund doctrine
• Zapple doctrine

 

Related terms

• docent
• docile
• doctor
• doctorate
• doctrinaire
• doctrinal, doctrinally
• doctrinize, doctrinization
• document
• indoctrinate

Translations

belief

• Afrikaans: doktrine
• Albanian: doktrinë (sq) n
• Arabic: مَذْهَب (ar) m (maḏhab), عَقِيدَة (ar) f (ʕaqīda)
• Armenian: սկզբունք (hy) (skzbunkʻ), հիմնադրույթ (hy) (himnadruytʻ)
• Bashkir: фекер (feker), ҡараш (qaraş)
• Belarusian: дактры́на f (daktrýna), ве́ра f (vjéra)
• Bulgarian: доктри́на (bg) f (doktrína), вя́ра (bg) f (vjára)
• Burmese: ဝါဒ (my) (wada.), အယူဝါဒ (my) (a.yuwada.)
• Catalan: doctrina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教條／教条 (zh) (jiàotiáo), 教義／教义 (zh) (jiàoyì), 教理 (zh) (jiàolǐ)

• Czech: doktrína (cs) f, víra (cs) f
• Danish: doktrin n, læresætning c
• Dutch: doctrine (nl) f
• Estonian: doktriin
• Finnish: opinkappale (fi), periaate (fi)
• French: doctrine (fr) f
• Galician: doutrina (gl) f
• Georgian: დოქტრინა (dokṭrina)
• German: Doktrin (de) f
• Greek: δόγμα (el) n (dógma)

  Ancient: δόγμα n (dógma)

• Hebrew: דּוֹקְטְרִינָה (he) f (doktrína)
• Hindi: मत (hi) m (mat), वाद (hi) m (vād)
• Hungarian: doktrína (hu)
• Indonesian: doktrin (id)
• Irish: foirceadal m, teagasc m
• Italian: dottrina (it) f
• Japanese: 教義 (ja) (きょうぎ, kyōgi), ドクトリン (ja) (dokutorin), 教理 (ja) (きょうり, kyōri)
• Kazakh: доктрина (doktrina)
• Khmer: លទ្ធិ (km) (latthiʼ)
• Korean: 교의(敎義) (ko) (gyoui), 교리(敎理) (ko) (gyori)
• Kyrgyz: доктрина (ky) (doktrina)
• Lao: ລັດທິ (lo) (lat thi)
• Latvian: doktrīna f
• Lithuanian: doktrina (lt) f
• Macedonian: доктрина f (doktrina), вера f (vera)
• Maori: whakaakoranga
• Norman: doctrinne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: doktrine (no) m, læresetning m or f

  Nynorsk: doktrine m, læresetning f

• Pali: laddhi, vāda m
• Persian: دکترین (fa) (doktorin)
• Polish: doktryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: doutrina (pt) f
• Romanian: doctrină (ro) f
• Russian: доктри́на (ru) f (doktrína), ве́ра (ru) f (véra)
• Sanskrit: वाद (sa) m (vāda)
• Scottish Gaelic: teagasg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: доктри́на f, ве̏ра f, вје̏ра f

  Roman: doktrína (sh) f, vȅra (sh) f, vjȅra (sh) f

• Slovak: doktrína f, viera f
• Slovene: doktrina f, vera (sl) f
• Spanish: doctrina (es) f
• Swedish: doktrin (sv) c, lära (sv) c
• Tajik: доктрина (tg) (doktrina)
• Telugu: సిద్ధాంతం (te) (siddhāntaṁ)
• Thai: ลัทธิ (th) (lát-tí)
• Turkish: doktrin (tr), öğreti (tr), ilke (tr)
• Ukrainian: доктри́на f (doktrýna), ві́ра f (víra)
• Urdu: عَقیِدَہ ('aqīdā), مَذْہَبْ m (mazhab)
• Uzbek: doktrina (uz)
• Vietnamese: giáo lý (vi) (教理), chủ nghĩa (vi) (主義), giáo điều (vi) (教條)

body of beliefs or teachings

• Afrikaans: doktrine
• Albanian: doktrinë (sq) f
• Arabic: تَعْلِيم (ar) m (taʕlīm)
• Armenian: ուսմունք (hy) (usmunkʻ), դավանանք (hy) (davanankʻ), վարդապետություն (hy) (vardapetutʻyun), դոկտրին (hy) (doktrin)
• Azerbaijani: doktrina, təlim (az)
• Bashkir: тәғлимәт (təğlimət)
• Belarusian: вучэ́нне n (vučénnje), дактры́на f (daktrýna)
• Bulgarian: уче́ние (bg) n (učénie), доктри́на (bg) (doktrína)
• Burmese: အယူဝါဒ (my) (a.yuwada.)
• Catalan: doctrina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學說／学说 (zh) (xuéshuō)

• Czech: doktrína (cs) f, učení (cs) n
• Danish: lære (da) c, dogmatik c
• Dutch: leer (nl) f, doctrine (nl) f
• Estonian: doktriin
• Finnish: oppi (fi), doktriini (fi), opinkäsitys
• French: doctrine (fr) f
• Galician: doutrina (gl) f
• German: Lehre (de) f, Doktrin (de) f
• Hindi: शिक्षा (hi) f (śikṣā)
• Indonesian: doktrin (id)
• Irish: foirceadal m, teagasc m
• Italian: dottrina (it) f
• Japanese: 学説 (ja) (がくせつ, gakusetsu)
• Kazakh: доктрина (doktrina), оқу (kk) (oqu)
• Korean: 학설(學說) (ko) (hakseol)
• Kyrgyz: доктрина (ky) (doktrina), окуу (ky) (okuu), таалим (ky) (taalim)
• Latvian: doktrīna f, mācība f
• Lithuanian: doktrina (lt) f
• Macedonian: учење n (učenje), доктрина f (doktrina)
• Maori: whakaakoranga
• Norman: doctrinne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: doktrine (no) m, læresetning m or f, lære (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: doktrine m, læresetning f

• Persian: تعلیم (fa) (ta'lim), دکترین (fa) (doktorin)
• Polish: doktryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: doutrina (pt) f
• Romanian: doctrină (ro) f
• Russian: уче́ние (ru) n (učénije), доктри́на (ru) (doktrína)
• Scottish Gaelic: teagasg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀че̄ње n, доктри́на f

  Roman: ùčēnje (sh) n, doktrína (sh) f

• Slovak: doktrína f, učenie n
• Slovene: učenje n, doktrina f
• Spanish: doctrina (es) f
• Swedish: lära (sv) c, doktrin (sv) c
• Tagalog: aral (tl)
• Tajik: доктрина (tg) (doktrina), таълимот (taʾlimot), таълим (tg) (taʾlim)
• Tatar: тәгълимат (täğlimat)
• Telugu: సిద్ధాంతం (te) (siddhāntaṁ)
• Thai: ลัทธิ (th) (lát-tí)
• Turkish: doktrin (tr), öğreti (tr), talim (tr)
• Ukrainian: уче́ння n (učénnja), доктри́на f (doktrýna)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa (vi) (主義), học thuyết (vi) (學說)
• Welsh: athrawiaeth (cy) f, dysgeidiaeth (cy) f
• Yiddish: לערע n (lere)

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• Crediton, centroid, on credit

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɔkˈtri.nə/

• Audio:

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

Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines, diminutive doctrinetje n)

1. doctrine

   Synonyms: leer, leerstuk

   De doctrine stelt duidelijk dat...

   The doctrine clearly states that...

Derived terms

• doctrinair
• indoctrineren

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin doctrīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔk.tʁin/

• Audio:

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Noun

doctrine f (plural doctrines)

1. doctrine

   corps de doctrine ― body of doctrine

Derived terms

• doctrinaire
• doctrinal
• endoctriner

Related terms

• docteur

Further reading

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

Spanish

Verb

doctrine

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