EGAVE

doctor

About 43.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
    If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
  2. noun 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. noun A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
  4. noun A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  5. noun A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
  6. noun Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
    the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
  7. noun A fish, the friar skate.
  8. noun A witch doctor.

Similar words

medico doc physician fix touch on adulterate sophisticate doctor up bushel mend

Often followed by

of and who was in to had or is

Word family

doctor of the church doctoral doctored doctoring doctorless doctors doctorship doctorships

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