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diplomate

American  
[dip-luh-meyt] / ˈdɪp ləˌmeɪt /

noun

  1. a person who has received a diploma, especially a doctor, engineer, etc., who has been certified as a specialist by a board within the appropriate profession.


diplomate British  
/ ˈdɪpləˌmeɪt /

noun

  1. any person who has been granted a diploma, esp a physician certified as a specialist

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of diplomate

First recorded in 1875–80; diplom(a) + -ate 1

Example Sentences

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Fernando del Paso, 83, the widely honored Mexican diplomate, novelist and poet died Wednesday, announced the University of Guadalaja, where he was its library director.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2018

I am now board certified and a diplomate of the American Board of Neurosurgery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Really, when I think of myself, a diplomate, a courtier, a man-about-town, curled in a dusty, musty wine-barrel, I am moved with vexation and laughter.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

And again sat the Secret Convention: an eminent English diplomate the most active of its members—he of all others the most successful cajoler of peoples—he whose long career had been a succession of betrayals.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

We doubt whether Robert Lytton, the diplomate, will ever realize the best aspirations of "Owen Meredith," the poet.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

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