Doctrine - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈdɑːktrɪn|  American pronunciation of the word doctrine
Brit.  |ˈdɒktrɪn|  British pronunciation of the word doctrine

noun

- a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school (syn: ism, philosophy)

Extra examples

The government was founded on a doctrine of equality for all people.

Many psychologists now question the doctrines of Sigmund Freud.

Marxist doctrine

...the doctrine that the swath of land between the Atlantic and the Pacific naturally appertained to the United States...

The kernel of this doctrine is quite mysterious.

John pronounced it to be a pestilential doctrine.

The doctrine was politically unacceptable and militarily unsound.

This belief was irreconcilable with the Church's doctrine of salvation.

His principal grounds of doctrine were for the alienability of the domain.

The doctrine of approvement has been obsolete now for 150 years. (Ch. Thesiger)

Word forms

noun
singular: doctrine
plural: doctrines
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