I was asked once in school and i said the full meaning is Post Honors Degree. The lecture just smiled he didnt say if it was right or wrong and the whole class thought it was correct. Is that it?

PhD means Doctor of Philosophy.

People having Doctorates

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U & all ur class are just 2 funny. 4 more clarification PhD is d acronym of doctor of philosophy.

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I was asked once in school and i said the full meaning is Post Honors Degree. The lecture just smiled he didnt say if it was right or wrong and the whole class thought it was correct. Is that it?

In some countries, a PhD is called DPhil or D. Phil. What is the difference between a British and an American PhD? Interestingly, but Abbreviations website gives more variants: such as Press Here, Dummy or Pretty Hard to Do.
Ph.D. or PhD (noun) is a doctorate degree basically received after at least 3 years of graduate study, thesis papers, buy essays with statements or dissertations; from the Cambridge English Dictionary

Doctor of Philosophy, it is so because philosophy is the mother of all disciplines. Great scholars that birthed other disciplines started as philosophers, that is, critical thinkers.

So a holder of such degree is deemed to have attained the highest level of academic pursuit in that field he research on.

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