Dentist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdɛntɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dentist is a noun meaning A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
Meaning
A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
More Meanings
- (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of Dengist.
Example Sentences
Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
Word Forms
- dentists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dentistry, dental, doctor, something, officer, physicians.
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