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di·plo·ma

Audio Help [di-ploh-muh] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -mas, Latin -ma·ta

Audio Help [-muh-tuh] Pronunciation Key, verb, -maed, -ma·ing.

–noun

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, esp. one of historical interest: a diploma from Carolingian times.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to grant or award a diploma to.

[Origin: 1635–45; < L diplōma a letter of recommendation, an official document < Gk díplōma a letter folded double, equiv. to diplō-, var. s. of diploûn to double (deriv. of diplóos; see diplo-) + -ma suffix of result

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di·plo·ma Audio Help (dĭ-plō'mə) Pronunciation Key
n.

A document issued by an educational institution, such as a university, testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
A certificate conferring a privilege or honor.
An official document or charter.

[Latin diplōma, letter of introduction, from Greek, document, folded paper, from diplous, double; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]

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diploma

c.1645, from L. diploma, from Gk. diploma "license, chart," originally "paper folded double," from diploun "to double, fold over," from diplos "double." Specific academic sense is 1682 in Eng.

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diploma
noun
a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
diploma [diˈploumə] noun

a written statement saying that one has passed a certain examination etc
Example: She has a diploma in teaching.

Arabic:	شِهادَة دِبْلوم
Chinese (Simplified):	毕业文凭
Chinese (Traditional):	畢業文憑
Czech:	diplom
Danish:	diplom; eksamensbevis
Dutch:	diploma
Estonian:	diplom
Finnish:	tutkintotodistus, diplomi
French:	diplôme
German:	das Diplom
Greek:	δίπλωμα, πιστοποιητικό σπουδών
Hungarian:	oklevél
Icelandic:	prófskírteini
Indonesian:	ijazah
Italian:	diploma

Japanese:	免状
Korean:	학위, 졸업장, 자격증
Latvian:	diploms
Lithuanian:	diplomas
Norwegian:	vitnemål, eksamensbevis, diplom
Polish:	dyplom
Portuguese (Brazil):	diploma
Portuguese (Portugal):	diploma
Romanian:	diplomă
Russian:	диплом
Slovak:	diplom
Slovenian:	diploma
Spanish:	diploma
Swedish:	akademisk examen
Turkish:	diploma, sertifika

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Diploma

Di*plo"ma\, n.; pl. Diplomas. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to double, fr. ? twofold. See Double.] A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.

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