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diploma

[ dih-ploh-muh ]

noun

, plural di·plo·mas, Latin di·plo·ma·ta [dih-, ploh, -m, uh, -t, uh].
  1. 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.
  2. a document conferring some honor, privilege, or power.
  3. a public or official document, especially one of historical interest:

    a diploma from Carolingian times.



verb (used with object)

, di·plo·maed, di·plo·ma·ing.
  1. to grant or award a diploma to.

diploma

/ dɪˈpləʊmə /

noun

  1. a document conferring a qualification, recording success in examinations or successful completion of a course of study
  2. an official document that confers an honour or privilege


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Other Words From

  • predi·ploma noun
  • undi·plomaed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of diploma1

1635–45; < Latin diplōma a letter of recommendation, an official document < Greek díplōma a letter folded double, equivalent to diplō-, variant stem of diploûn to double (derivative of diplóos; diplo- ) + -ma suffix of result

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Word History and Origins

Origin of diploma1

C17: from Latin: official letter or document, literally: letter folded double, from Greek; see diplo-

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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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