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Doctor

/ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK..

Definitions by Sense

  1. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK.
  2. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
  3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
  4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  5. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
  6. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
  7. A fish, the friar skate.
  8. (obsolete) A witchdoctor.

Example Sentences

If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.
So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.
one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel
the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.
[T]he material operation is that the doctor would catch a certain species of lizard under particular circumstances at a particular time. He would croon over it the name of the man while gently rattling his ‘devil bones,’ thus calling up the evil spirit that follows these particular charmed bones.

Synonyms for doctor

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Antonyms for doctor

breakbust

Related Words

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does doctor mean?

Doctor means A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK..

What is a synonym for doctor?

Common synonyms include doc, family doctor, general practitioner, GP.

What is the opposite of doctor?

Possible antonyms include break, bust.

How do you use doctor in a sentence?

If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.

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