diplomate

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noun

A professional who has earned a diploma.

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Meanings

diplomate1

noundiplomate (plural diplomates)

plural diplomates

  1. A professional who has earned a diploma.

    You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?

    1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Napoleon III in Italy”, in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 16

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verbdiplomate (third-person singular simple present diplomates, present participle diplomating, simple past and past participle diplomated)

present singular third person diplomates · participle present diplomating · participle past diplomated · past diplomated

  1. transitiveTo award a diploma to.

Origin

diplomate · noun

From diploma + -ate (suffix forming nouns denoting rank or office).

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diplomate · verb

From diploma + -ate (suffix forming verbs).

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APA

diplomate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diplomate

MLA

“diplomate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diplomate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diplomate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diplomate.

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