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diploma
[ dih-ploh-muh ]
noun
- a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- a document conferring some honor, privilege, or power.
- a public or official document, especially one of historical interest:
a diploma from Carolingian times.
verb (used with object)
- to grant or award a diploma to.
diploma
/ dɪˈpləʊmə /
noun
- a document conferring a qualification, recording success in examinations or successful completion of a course of study
- an official document that confers an honour or privilege
Other Words From
- predi·ploma noun
- undi·plomaed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of diploma1
Example Sentences
The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.
My grandmother lacks a high school diploma but is full of more wisdom, and more financial sense, than a lot of people I know.
This is not the case, but the reality is worse: losing access to a diploma and getting kicked out of school.
This formula excludes students who take longer than four years to earn their diploma, and GEDs and other special diplomas.
I grew up on the Lower East Side—before it was gentrified—and I have a high school diploma.
Nevertheless, Cui did not handle the young composer so severely as on the occasion of his Diploma Cantata.
Nothing distracts them from their aim; they never lose sight of the diploma that will be their bread-winner.
A girl bound for college became immediately an integer with which a young man who had not yet mislaid his diploma could reckon.
I only know Latin, and I have no diploma which would enable me to sell my knowledge at a high price.
As he himself expressed it, he delivered his diploma lecture through his paintings.
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