doctrine
Etymology
From Middle English,
from Old French,
from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”),
from doctor (“a teacher”),
from docere (“to teach”);
see doctor.
Noun
doctrine (countable and uncountable, plural doctrines)
- (countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.
The Four Noble Truths summarise the main doctrines of Buddhism.
- (countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text. quotations ▼
What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
- (countable) A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
the Monroe **Doctrine...the Brezhnev **Doctrine...the Negroponte **Doctrine...
Derived terms
- abstention doctrine
- Bell doctrine
- blue pencil doctrine
- fairness doctrine
- first sale doctrine
- first-sale doctrine
Related terms
- docent
- docile
- doctor
- doctorate
- doctrinaire
- doctrinal, doctrinally
- doctrinize, doctrinization
- document
- indoctrinate
Translations
show ▼±belief
show ▼±body of beliefs or teachings