Doctor

Quick meaning: Doctor is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

More Meanings

1. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
2. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
3. A fish, the friar skate.
4. 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.
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. (obsolete) A witchdoctor.

Example Sentences

one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel

If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.

the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.

Word Forms

• doctors
• doctour
• doctoring
• doctored

Synonyms for doctor

Depending on context, synonyms include doc, GP, medic, physician, sawbones, surgeon.

Antonyms for doctor

Common opposites include break, bust.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include medico, doc, physician, fix, adulterate, sophisticate.

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