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doctor
/ˈdɑktɚ/
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What does doctor mean?
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
More meanings (17)
noun
- A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
- A fish, the friar skate.
- The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.
- (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
- (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
- (obsolete) A witch doctor.
- (obsolete, slang) A ship's cook.
verb
- To act as a medical doctor to.
- (humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
- To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
- To genetically alter an extant species.
- (figuratively) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
- To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
- (obsolete) To take medicine.
phrase
- A mnemonic to help remember the difference between the Spanish verbs ser and estar (both meaning "to be"); ser is generally used for: Descriptions, Occupations, Characteristics, Times, Origins, and Relationships.
proper noun
- Short for Fremantle Doctor.
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IPA pronunciation
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The doctor took off his straw hat and carried it in his hand as they walked toward Mexican Town, across the sand.
When the doctor came he said that death had been instantaneous and probably painless, caused in all likelihood by some sudden shock.
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It was a happy relief for us when the door opened and Doctor Livesey came in, on his visit to my father.
“Doctor,” she went on, “did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has gone to get that mite of a child?”
When a doctor could be got at, he said that but for Mrs. Lapham's timely care, the lady would hardly have lived.