Diploma

Definition: Diploma

Diploma

Noun

1. A document certifying the successful completion of a course of study.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "diploma" was first used: sometime around 1645. (references)

Etymology: Diploma \Di*plo"ma\, noun; plural Diplomas. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to double, from twofold. See Double.]. (references)

Education

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Diploma

Commission

Errand, charge, brevet, diploma, exequatur, permit; (permission).

Evidence

Admission; (assent); authority, warrant, credential, diploma, voucher, certificate, doquet, docket; testamur; record; document; pi

Crosswords: Diploma

Afrikaan (diploma), Dutch (diploma), Hungarian (award, college certificate, diploma, diploma in sg, thesis), Indonesian (certificate, diploma), Italian (certificate, diploma, graduation), Papiamen (diploma), Portuguese (bachelors degree, certificate of ability, degree, diploma, licence, pass degree, sheepskin), Serbo-Croatian (certificate, diploma, licentiate), Spanish (diploma, sheepskin), Turkish (certificate, certified, degree, dip, dipl, diploma, diplomaed, leaving certificate, sheepskin).

That's just propaganda from those money-grubbing diploma companies (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Well, I've got a diploma. I guess I could make a really useful paper hat out of it (This Life; writing credit: Joe Ahearne; Amelia Bullmore)

But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley)

Whoever forged this diploma must really take pride in his work (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner)

Diploma za smrt (1989)

Death Diploma (1987)

Diploma Dilemma (1987)

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References

• Diploma PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Diploma Mills: Degrees of Fraud (American Council on Education/MacMillan Series on Higher Education) (reference)

• DIPLOMA PLC: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Internet Literacy: Diploma 97 (reference)

• Preparation and Revision for the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (reference)

• Self Assessment for the Diploma in Child Health (Arnold's Self-Assessment.) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Death Diploma (reference)

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Gánese! éste Diploma de Vacunación. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Our only true medical diploma since 1871--none other genuine / Why Dr. Carl Both refused to pay further assessments to the Mass. Medical Society (Suffolk District). Credit: Library of Congress.

Broom sweeping out diploma, books and inkwell, and letter N. Credit: Library of Congress.

"The College Graduate" holding diploma standing next to soldier at attention with an angry eagle in Uncle Sam hat at the soldier's feet. Credit: Library of Congress.

Graduation Day at Annapolis - Cadet receiving his diploma from President Theodore Roosevelt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Mary Bell Armstrong receives diploma from Major General James A Ulio, A.G.D. Miss Armstrong was the first WAAC so honored. Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Diploma. Diploma from Century of Progress awarded to Horydczak for photography. Credit: Library of Congress.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Diploma presentation by Red Cross to Pepco first aiders I. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Musical Institute, Providence, R.I., awards this diploma to ... / J.E. Baker. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, award this diploma with silver medal to Sylvester R. Koehler for etchings. Contributed to the fourteenth exhibition, Sept. 1881 / designed by H. Billings ; engraved by S.A. Schoff. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

Only 2% working in IT have a Ph.D. while 26% claim to have some kind of a diploma. (references)

Once the new regulations are enforced, DTCM will not license any tour guide not holding their diploma. (references)

Increasingly, a diploma from an internationally recognized university is the ticket to a better job in Kuwait. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

In May the country's first private university, Unity College, began offering a 2-year diploma course in journalism and communication. (references)

Togo

A religious organization must submit its statutes, a statement of doctrine, bylaws, names and addresses of executive board members, the pastor's diploma, a contract, a site map, and a description of its financial situation. (references)

Economic History

Barbados

Other Academic Qualifications; A.L.A.M., L.G.S.M., Diploma in Journalism. (references)

Human Rights

Dominican Republic

In August the Military Institute of Human Rights offered its first diploma course in Human Rights. (references)

Brazil

Since 1998 new hires have been required to have a high school diploma and to take human rights courses. (references)

Costa Rica

It also requires the police academy to develop a course and diploma in police administration that includes material on the fundamental and universal principles of human rights. (references)

Travel

Sri Lanka

The Overseas School of Colombo offers programs for pre-school through twelfth grade and is the only international school offering an International Baccalaureate diploma, which is the equivalent of a diploma from an American high school. (references)

Women

Italy

In 2000 ISTAT reported that employed women are more likely to have a high school diploma (34.7 percent) than employed men (28.5 percent). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "diploma": award a diploma to ♦ confer a diploma ♦ get a diploma ♦ have a diploma in ♦ high school diploma ♦ holding a diploma ♦ obtain a diploma ♦ technical diploma. Additional references.

Beginning with "diploma": diploma-level.

Ending with "diploma": post-diploma.

Afrikaans

diploma, bedryf (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, certificate, do, document, enterprise, handicraft, keep, make, observe, occupation, perform, profession, trade), akte (act, certificate, document). (various references)

Albanian

dokument zyrtar (letter), diplomë (baccalaureate, certificate, qualification), vërtetim (ascertainment, attestation, authentication, certificate, certification, confirmation, corroboration, demonstration, endorsement, indorsation, indorsement, legalization, note, receipt, substantiation, verification), akt (act, action, certificate, document, doing, fact, proceedings, turn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وثيقة رسمية (indent, writ), ‏حصل علي الدبلوم, ‏شهادة (attestation, certificate, certification, credentials, debenture, degree, deposition, evidence, paper-qualification, show, testification, testimonial, testimony, testiness, ticket, token, witness), ‏دبلوم, ‏براءة (exculpation, guiltlessness, honesty, innocence, primitiveness, pureness, rescript). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свидетелство (certificate, document, testimonial, testimony, ticket, warrant, witness), харта (charter), грамота (charter, instrument), диплома (sheepskin). (various references)

Chinese 

文憑 , 文凭 (Diplomas). (various references)

Czech

diplom (patent). (various references)

Danish

eksamensbevis, aktstykke (act, certificate, document). (various references)

Dutch

diploma (certificate, vocational competence certificate), bul (bull), brevet (brevet), akte (act, certificate, document, paper, testimony). (various references)

Esperanto

diplomo, akto (act, certificate, document). (various references)

Faeroese

váttan, prógv (proof, sign, token). (various references)

Farsi 

گواهینامه (Affidavit, Certificate), دیپلم , دانشنامه . (various references)

Finnish

diplomi, kunniakirja. (various references)

French

diplôme. (various references)

Frisian

útkomste (act, certificate, document), akte (act, certificate, document, paper). (various references)

German

Diplom (certificate). (various references)

Greek 

δίπλωμα (degree, fold). (various references)

Hawaiian

akt (act, certificate, document). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסמך (certificate, document, instrument, paper, voucher), תעו�"ת �"סמכ�", תעו�"�" (attestation, bill, certificate, credential, document, documentary, record, report, ticket), �"יפלומ�". (various references)

Hungarian

diploma (award, college certificate, diploma in sg, thesis). (various references)

Icelandic

skírteini (act, certificate, document), þáttur (act, certificate, document). (various references)

Indonesian

diploma (certificate), ijasah (brevet, certificate), akta (certificate, deed, official document). (various references)

Italian

diploma (certificate, graduation), documento (act, bill, certificate, deed, document, file, indent, paper, record, scripture, writ, writing), azione (achievement, act, action, certificate, deed, document, doing, exertion, feat, motion, operation, play, prise, prize, process, share, stock), atto (act, action, apt, certificate, deed, document, feat, gesture, motion, record). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss), 免状 (licence), 奥許し (initiation, secret), 勲記 (decoration diploma), �'業証書 (graduation certificate, testamur), 修了証書 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おくゆるし (initiation, secret), ディプロマ , そつぎょうしょうしょ (graduation certificate, testamur), しゅうりょうしょうしょ, く�"き (decoration diploma), め�"じょう (licence). (various references)

Korean 

졸업증서 (Diplomas). (various references)

Manx

teishtys (certification, chitty). (various references)

Papiamen

diploma, akto (accomplishment, achievement, act, action, certificate, document). (various references)

Pig Latin

iplomaday.(various references)

Portuguese

diploma (bachelors degree, degree, pass degree, sheepskin). (various references)

Romanian

diplomã (certificate, commission, sheepskin, ticket). (various references)

Russian 

официальный документ (record), акт (academy-figure, accomplishment, achievement, act, action, certificate, commencement, document, topical), диплом;свидетельство, диплом (patent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

diploma (certificate, licentiate), svedočanstvo (certificate, certification, deposition, testimony). (various references)

Spanish

diploma (sheepskin), certificado (act, certificate, certificated, certified, document, registered, testimony, warrant), acta (act, certificate, document, minutes, protocol, record). (various references)

Swedish

diplom (certificate). (various references)

Thai

อนุปริญญา. (various references)

Turkish

diploma (certificate, certified, degree, dip, dipl, diplomaed, leaving certificate, sheepskin), díploma. (various references)

Turkmen 

diplom (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

офіційний документ, дипломувати, диплом (credential, patent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

văn thư công bằng, văn kiện chính thức, văn bằng (certificate, sheepskin), chứng chỉ giấy khen, bằng khen, bằng cấp. (various references)

diploma. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "diploma": diplomacies, diplomacy, diplomaed, diplomaing, diplomas, diplomat, diplomata, diplomate, diplomates, diplomatic, diplomatically, diplomatist, diplomatists, diplomats. (additional references)

Words containing "diploma": nondiplomatic, superdiplomat, superdiplomats, undiplomatic, undiplomatically. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Diploma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deploma, Dialcom, Diboma, diflam, dilima, Dilum, diplo, diplom, diploman, diplome, diplomw, dipylon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: amidol, lipoma.

-2 letters: amido, dolma, domal, limpa, milpa, modal, plaid, podia.

-3 letters: amid, apod, damp, dial, diol, dopa, idol, laid, lamp, lido, lima, limo, limp, lipa, load, loam, maid, mail, mild, milo, modi, moil, mola, mold, opal, padi, paid, pail, palm, pial, pima, plod.

-4 letters: ado, aid, ail, aim, alp, ami, amp, dal, dam.

+1 letter: diplomas, diplomat, olympiad, plasmoid.

+2 letters: diplomacy, diplomaed, diplomata, diplomate, diplomats, olympiads, plasmodia, plasmoids, polyamide, sympodial.

+3 letters: amphiploid, complained, diplomaing, diplomates, diplomatic, monopodial, palindrome, plasmodium, polyamides, primordial, prismoidal, proclaimed, psalmodies.

+4 letters: amphiploids, amphiploidy, complicated, dimercaprol, diplomacies, diplomatist, endoplasmic, palindromes, palindromic, polygamized.

+5 letters: accomplished, amphidiploid, dimercaprols, diplomatists, imponderable, imponderably, monopodially, palindromist, postmedieval, primordially, temporalized, undiplomatic.