dissertation

See also: Dissertation

English

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dissertation

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin dissertātiō, from dissertō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsəˈteɪʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsɚˈteɪʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪs.əˈtæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

dissertation (plural dissertations)

1. A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in the US and a non-doctoral degree in the UK; a thesis.

   write a dissertation

   write up a dissertation

   hand in a dissertation

   complete a dissertation

   She spent three years writing her doctoral dissertation.

   The student defended his dissertation successfully.

   Her dissertation focused on medieval literature.

2. A lengthy lecture on a subject; a treatise; a discourse; a sermon.

Alternative forms

• diss (clipping)

Derived terms

• all but dissertation
• dissertational
• dissertationist
• dissertator
• doctoral dissertation
• predissertation

Translations

formal exposition of a subject

Armenian: ատենախոսություն (hy) (atenaxosutʻyun), դիսերտացիա (hy) (disertacʻia) Belarusian: дысерта́цыя f (dysjertácyja) Bulgarian: дисерта́ция (bg) f (disertácija) Catalan: dissertació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 論文 / 论文 (zh) (lùnwén) Czech: disertační práce f, disertace f Danish: afhandling c Dutch: proefschrift (nl) n, (Flemish) thesis (nl) f, dissertatie (nl) f Esperanto: disertaĵo, disertacio Finnish: tieteellinen tutkielma; väitöskirja (fi) (for doctoral degree) French: dissertation (fr) f Georgian: დისერტაცია (diserṭacia), სადოქტორო ნაშრომი (sadokṭoro našromi) German: Doktorarbeit (de) f, Dissertation (de) f Greek: διατριβή (el) f (diatriví) Gujarati: મહાશોધ નિબંધ (mahāśodh nibandh) Hebrew: תזה (he) f, דיסרטציה f Hindi: प्रबंध (hi) m (prabandh), निबंध (hi) (nibandh) Hungarian: disszertáció (hu), diplomamunka (hu), értekezés (hu) Indonesian: disertasi (id) Italian: dissertazione (it) Japanese: 学位論文 (ja) (がくいろんぶん, gakui ronbun), 博士論文 (ja) (はくしろんぶん, hakushi ronbun) Kazakh: диссертация (dissertasiä) Khmer: និក្ខេបបទ (km) (nɨkkheepaʼbɑt) Latvian: disertācija f Malayalam: പ്രബന്ധം (ml) (prabandhaṁ) Maori: tuhingaroa Norwegian: avhandling m Persian: رساله (fa) (resâle), پایان‌نامه (pâyân-nâme) Polish: doktorat (pl) m, dysertacja (pl) f Portuguese: dissertação (pt) Russian: диссерта́ция (ru) f (dissertácija), тракта́т (ru) m (traktát) Spanish: disertación (es) f Swedish: avhandling (sv) Thai: ดุษฎีนิพนธ์ (th) (dùt-sà-dii-ní-pon), วิทยานิพนธ์ (th) (wít-tá-yaa-ní-pon) Ukrainian: дисерта́ція f (dysertácija) Vietnamese: luận văn (vi) (論文) Welsh: traethawd (cy) m

a lengthy lecture on a subject; a treatise; a discourse; a sermon

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: tutkielma (fi), puhe (fi), saarna (fi) Hungarian: értekezés (hu), tanulmány (hu) Persian: سمینار (fa)

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dissertation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissertātiōnem, from dissertō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

dissertation f (plural dissertations)

1. dissertation, essay

   Synonyms: essai, composition, rédaction

Descendants

• → Dutch: dissertatie
  • → Indonesian: disertasi

Further reading

• “dissertation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.