Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A document issued by an educational institution, such as a university, testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
- n. A certificate conferring a privilege or honor.
- n. An official document or charter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, a letter or other composition written on paper or parchment and folded.
- n. Hence Any letter, literary muniment, or public document. See diplomatics.
- n. In modern use, a letter or writing, usually under seal and signed by competent authority, conferring some honor, privilege, or power, as that given by a college in evidence of a degree, or authorizing a physician to practise his profession, and the like.
- To furnish with a diploma; certify by a diploma.
Wiktionary
- n. A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study
Etymologies
- From Latin diploma, from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (diplōma, "folded paper, license"), from διπλόω (diploō, "I double, fold over"), from διπλόος (diploos, "double"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin diplōma, letter of introduction, from Greek, document, folded paper, from diplous, double; see dwo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is this what you call a diploma mailed (ph) to some extent?”
“BTW, "diploma" is defined as "a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.”
“Pizza Hut Momma said ... angdesj ... you is just jealous. kg - I got me a diploma from the U of R journalism skool.”
““A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes,” said Sidra Qureshi, president of Trinity Diversity Connection.”
“Employers have decided a high school diploma is critical, and will prefer candidates that have one.”
“BUT in the next breadth, of their plan to lower the standards for testing, he said: I want more than anything to be able to say with confidence that every Pennsylvania student who receives a diploma is ready for the real world.”
“Today, an American High School diploma is two years behind the International Baccalaureate and its European counterparts.”
The Huffington Post: Teri Szucs: The American Baccalaureate, Creating Inquiring Minds
“This should make any diploma from the state of Utah worthless.”
“Yet a lot of people in the US appear to have the necessary skills to make a living & economics tells us that if education was lacking there would be a premium on eduacation in the market ... if the return on a HS diploma is small then that probably tells us that while HS level education may be 'basic' it isn't lacking.”
Second Term Policies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Seeing as the diploma is primarily for the students, I think neutrality should at least play a role in the decision-making process along with any concept of “free speech” which the university asserts (if its even claiming it atall).”
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