doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɑktɚ/
ipa: /ˈdɔktə/
ipa: /ˈdɒktə/
ipa: /ˈdɒktəɹ/
rhymes: -ɒktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doctors
form: doctour
Etymology: From Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“to teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”).
Senses: examples: text: If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
text: By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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.
glosses: A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
glosses: A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
examples: text: So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.
ref: 1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 5, verso:
text: one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
examples: text: the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
text: the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
text: The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.
ref: 2010, Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology, page 172:
glosses: Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
glosses: A fish, the friar skate.
examples: text: […] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]
ref: 1844, William Robert Wilde, Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean, page 124:
text: His galley is small, and, microscopic as it is, it is shared by his brother in misery, the ship's cook, he whom the crew familiarly know as the “Doctor.”
ref: 1881, The United Service, volume 5, page 212:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship's cook.
Synonyms: sense: physician
word: doc
word: family doctor
word: general practitioner
word: GP
word: medic
word: physician
word: sawbones
english: who undertakes surgery
translation: who undertakes surgery
word: surgeon
sense: veterinarian
word: vet
sense: veterinarian
word: veterinarian
sense: veterinarian
word: veterinary
sense: veterinarian
word: veterinary surgeon
Derived terms: abortion doctor
an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
an apple a day keeps the doctor away
Angelic Doctor
antidoctor
barefoot doctor
bedoctor
brain doctor
Cape Doctor
cleaning-doctor
clown doctor
color-doctor
colour-doctor
company doctor
couch doctor
dedoctor
doc
doctorable
doctoral
doctor-assisted suicide
doctor bird
doctor blade
doctor-box
doctorcraft
doctordom
doctorer
doctorese
doctoress
doctress
doctor-fish
doctorfish
doctor-gum
doctorhead
doctorhood
doctorial
doctorise
doctorize
doctorish
doctorishness
doctorism
doctor killer
doctorless
doctorlike
doctorling
doctorly
Doctor Martens
Doctor of Divinity
Doctor of Law
Doctor of Letters
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Science
Doctor of the Chair
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
doctor's bonnet
doctor's certificate
Doctors' Commons
doctor's curse
doctor's gum
doctor-shears
doctorship
doctor shopping
doctor's note
doctor's office
Doctors of the Church
doctor's orders
doctorspeak
doctor's stuff
doctor-stuff
doctor's we
doctor up
Doctor Yellow
dog doctor
dogtor
Dr
Dr.
eye doctor
family doctor
fish doctor
flying doctor
Fremantle Doctor
good doctor
head doctor
herb doctor
honorary doctor
horse doctor
horse-doctor
I am a doctor
interdoctor
intradoctor
is anyone here a doctor
junior doctor
kaffir doctor
lint doctor
lint-doctor
mad-doctor
medical doctor
multidoctor
nondoctor
obeah doctor
outfit doctor
paradoctor
plague doctor
play doctor
pox doctor's clerk
priest-doctor
quack doctor
rain doctor
rain-doctor
rig doctor
root doctor
saw doctor
school doctor
script doctor
snake doctor
spin doctor
spirit doctor
subdoctor
superdoctor
teledoctor
the good doctor
under-doctor
underdoctored
under the doctor
undoctor
undoctored
water doctor
water-doctor
what the doctor ordered
just what the doctor ordered
witch doctor
witchdoctor
woman doctor
you are the doctor
you're the doctor
Related terms: word: docent
word: doctorand
word: doctorate
word: doctrine
word: doctrix
alt: D.A.O.M.
word: Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
english: D.A.
translation: D.A.
word: Doctor of Arts
alt: D.Arch.
word: Doctor of Architecture
alt: D.A.S.
word: Doctor of Applied Science
alt: D.B.A.
word: Doctor of Business Administration
alt: D.Chem.
word: Doctor of Chemistry
english: D.C.
translation: D.C.
word: Doctor of Chiropractic
alt: D.C.L.
word: Doctor of Civil Law
alt: D.C.J.
word: Doctor of Criminal Justice
alt: D.C.L.
word: Doctor of Comparative
roman: D.C.L.
alt: D.C.L.
word: Civil Law
alt: D.C.S.
word: Doctor of Computer Science
alt: D.Crim.
word: Doctor of Criminology
alt: D.M.D.
word: Doctor of Dental Medicine
alt: D.D.S.
word: Doctor of Dental Surgery
alt: Dr.DES.
word: Doctor of Design
english: Ed.D.
translation: Ed.D.
word: Doctor of Education
alt: D.E.D.
word: Doctor of Environmental Design
alt: D.Eng.
word: Doctor of Engineering
alt: D.Env.
word: Doctor of Environment
alt: D.E.Sc./Sc.D.E.
word: Doctor of Engineering Science
alt: D.F.
word: Doctor of Forestry
alt: D.F.A.
word: Doctor of Fine Arts
alt: D.G.S.
word: Doctor of Geological Science
alt: D.H.L.
word: Doctor of Hebrew Literature
roman: D.H.L.
alt: D.H.L.
word: Letters
alt: D.H.S.
word: Doctor of Health and Safety
alt: D.H.S.
word: Doctor of Hebrew Studies
alt: D.I.T.
word: Doctor of Industrial Technology
alt: D.I.T.
word: Doctor of Information Technology
alt: S.J.D.
word: Doctor of Juridical Science
alt: D.L.S.
word: Doctor of Library Science
alt: D.M.
word: Doctor of Music
alt: D.M.A., A.Mus.D.
word: Doctor of Musical Arts
alt: D.M.E.
word: Doctor of Musical Education
alt: D.Min./D.M.
word: Doctor of Ministry
alt: D.M.L.
word: Doctor of Modern Languages
alt: D.M.M.
word: Doctor of Music Ministry
alt: D.M.Sc.
word: Doctor of Medical Science
alt: D.N.Sc.
word: Doctor of Nursing Science
alt: D.P.A.
word: Doctor of Public Administration
alt: D.O.
word: Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
alt: Pharm.D.
word: Doctor of Pharmacy
alt: Ph.D.
word: Doctor of Philosophy
alt: D.P.E.
word: Doctor of Physical Education
alt: D.P.T.
word: Doctor of Physical Therapy
alt: D.P.M.
word: Doctor of Podiatric Medicine
alt: Psy.D.
word: Doctor of Psychology
alt: D.P.H.
word: Doctor of Public Health
alt: D.P.S.
word: Doctor of Professional Studies
alt: D.R.E.
word: Doctor of Religious Education
alt: D.Rec./D.R.
word: Doctor of Recreation
alt: D.Sc./Sc.D.
word: Doctor of Science
alt: D.Sc.D.
word: Doctor of Science in Dentistry
alt: D.Sc.H.
word: Doctor of Science and Hygiene
alt: D.Sc.V.M.
word: Doctor of Science in Veterinary Medicine
alt: D.S.M.
word: Doctor of Sacred Music
alt: D.S.Sc.
word: Doctor of Social Science
alt: D.S.W.
word: Doctor of Social Work
alt: J.C.D.
word: Doctor of Canon Law
alt: L.Sc.D.
word: Doctor of the Science of Law
english: Rh.D.
translation: Rh.D.
word: Doctor of Rehabilitation
alt: S.T.D.
word: Doctor of Sacred Theology
alt: D.Sc.
word: Doctor of Science
alt: D.Tech.
word: Doctor of Technology
alt: Th.D.
word: Doctor of Theology
alt: D.Univ
word: Doctor of the University
word: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
alt: D.V.M./V.M.D
word: Veterinary Medical Doctor
word: Divinitatis Doctor
alt: D.D.
word: Doctor of Divinity
word: Juris Doctor
alt: J.D.
word: Doctor of Law
word: Optometry Doctor
alt: O.D.
word: Doctor of Optometry
word: Legum Doctor
alt: LL.D.
word: Doctor of Laws
word: Literarum Doctor
alt: D.Litt.
word: Doctor of Letters
word: Medicine Doctor
alt: M.D./D.M.
word: Doctor of Medicine
word: Music Doctor
alt: D.Mus.
word: Doctor of Music
word: preceptor
word: proctor
word: professor