doctor's degree vs degree

degree vs doctor's degree

doctor's degree and degree both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
doctor's degree	Yes	No	No	No
degree	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, degree is a hypernym of doctor's degree; that is, degree is a word with a broader meaning than doctor's degree:

doctor's degree: one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
degree: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study

Other hypernyms of doctor's degree include academic degree.

doctor's degree (noun)	degree (noun)
one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university	a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
	the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
	the highest power of a term or variable
	an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
	a measure for arcs and angles
	a unit of temperature on a specified scale
	a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

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