Australian English Meaning of doctor

doctor

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Definitions and Meaning of doctor in English

Wordnet

doctor (n)

a licensed medical practitioner

(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching

children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office

a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution

Wordnet

doctor (v)

alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

give medical treatment to

restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

Webster

doctor (n.)

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

The friar skate.

Webster

doctor (v. t.)

To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

Webster

doctor (v. i.)

To practice physic.

FAQs About the word doctor

doctor

a licensed medical practitioner, (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological

physician,doctor,medic,doctor,nurse,specialist,Surgeon,anaesthetist,attending,clinician

non-physician,non-doctor

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