Synonyms of dissertations

dissertations

noun

plural of dissertation

as in essays

a long piece of writing about a particular subject that is done to earn an advanced degree at a university

He wrote his dissertation on an obscure 16th-century poet.

Related Words

• essays
• commentaries
• treatises
• articles
• theses
• papers
• themes
• columns
• compositions
• editorials
• studies
• reports
• features
• discourses
• write-ups
• discussions
• causeries
• tracts
• reviews
• expositions
• prolegomena

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dissertations

The full list of dissertations and theses is free to access – a resource for casual fans and researchers alike who want to learn more about the game. — Tom Reinsfelder, The Conversation, 9 June 2026

The plush red seats of the Concertgebouw's main auditorium are occupied by students cramming for upcoming exams and finishing dissertations as classical music fills the hall. — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026

Then there’s the rapid advance of image models, and models that can write poetry, and fiction, and dissertations, and ads, and policy papers. — John Werner, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026

People would devote entire dissertations to developing techniques for distinguishing handwritten digits or for recognizing faces in images; then a deep-learning algorithm would digest the underlying data, discover the subtleties of the problem, and make those projects seem obsolete. — James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025