dissertation

See also: Dissertation

English

Etymology

From Latin dissertātiō, from dissertō.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

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

Noun

dissertation (plural dissertations)

2. 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.

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

Alternative forms

• diss (clipping)

Derived terms

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

Translations

formal exposition of a subject — see also thesis

• 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 (dıyssertacıya)
• Khmer: និក្ខេបបទ (km) (nɨkkheepaʼbɑt)
• Latvian: disertācija f
• Malayalam: പ്രബന്ധം (ml) (prabandhaṁ)
• Māori: 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: 論著 / 论著 (zh) (lùnzhù), 說教 / 说教 (zh) (shuōjiào), 演講 / 演讲 (zh) (yǎnjiǎng)

• 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