doctrina
Spanish, noun
doctrina is spelled D-O-C-T-R-I-N-A (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,594th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doctrina is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “teaching” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of doctrinar. With an accent, doctriná is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of doctrinar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “El cuerpo de preceptos para la enseñanza de una ciencia”.
What does doctrina mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineteaching
- 2
femininedoctrine
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of doctrinar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. El cuerpo de preceptos para la enseñanza de una ciencia. 2. Conjunto de ideas o preceptos que sirven de base a un sistema de pensamiento.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of doctrina
- doctrinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to doctrina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doctrina in Spanish?
doctrina appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).