Definition of doctor Doctor
/dɑˈktɚ/ - [dakter] - doc•tor
We found 38 definitions of doctor from 10 different sources.
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WordNet
NounPlural: doctors |
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| doctor - a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" | ||
| doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico | ||
| medical man, medical practitioner someone who practices medicine | ||
| doctor-patient relation the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient | ||
| abortionist a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | ||
| allergist a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies | ||
| angiologist a physician who specializes in angiology | ||
| extern, medical extern a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | ||
| gastroenterologist a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract | ||
| general practitioner, gp a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses | ||
| hakeem, hakim a Muslim physician | ||
| house physician, resident physician, resident a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital; "the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital" | ||
| houseman, intern, interne, medical intern an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) | ||
| primary care physician the physician who provides primary care; "the primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system" | ||
| quack the harsh sound of a duck | ||
| medical specialist, specialist an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | ||
| operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon a physician who specializes in surgery | ||
| veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon, vet a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | ||
| doctor - a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics" | ||
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| bookman, scholarly person, student, scholar a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | ||
| doctor - children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office; "the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor" | ||
| doctor - (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching; "the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages" | ||
| Doctor of the Church, Doctor | ||
| theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | ||
| church of rome, roman catholic church, roman church, western church, roman catholic the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy | ||
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| doctor - give medical treatment to | ||
| care for, treat be fond of; be attached to | ||
| practice of medicine, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" | ||
| vet provide veterinary care for | ||
| doctor - restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" | ||
| repair, mend, fix, bushel, furbish up, restore, touch on | ||
| bust, break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better make amendments to; "amend the document" | ||
| tinker, fiddle try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend" | ||
| fill plug with a substance; "fill a cavity" | ||
| patch, piece mend by putting a patch on; "patch a hole" | ||
| cobble repair or mend; "cobble shoes" | ||
| repoint, point repair the joints of bricks; "point a chimney" | ||
| trouble-shoot, troubleshoot solve problems; "He is known to be good at trouble-shooting" | ||
| patch up, patch mend by putting a patch on; "patch a hole" | ||
| resole, sole put a new sole on; "sole the shoes" | ||
| revamp, vamp to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it" | ||
| reheel, heel put a new heel on; "heel shoes" | ||
| darn repair by sewing; "darn socks" | ||
| doctor - alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" | ||
| sophisticate, doctor up | ||
| adulterate, dilute, debase, load, stretch lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- doctor (Noun)
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph. D. or Th. D. or one of many other terminal degree s conferred by a college or university. - doctor (Noun)
A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The final examination and qualification may award a doctorate in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, DDS, DPT, DC, in the US or MBBS in the UK. - doctor (Noun)
A veterinarian; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. - doctor (Noun)
A person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions. - doctor (Verb)
To act as a medical doctor to. - doctor (Verb)
To make someone into an academic doctor. - doctor (Verb)
To physically alter medically or surgically a living being in order to change growth or behavior. - doctor (Verb)
To genetically alter an extant species. - doctor (Verb)
To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- doctor (n.)
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. - doctor (n.)
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. - doctor (n.)
One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. - doctor (n.)
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. - doctor (n.)
The friar skate. - 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. - doctor (v. t.)
To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. - doctor (v. t.)
To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. - doctor (v. i.)
To practice physic.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A person who has completed a study of medicine, and as such tries to diagnose and cure diseases in patients. -
doctor
A person who has obtained a doctorate degree. -
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To change the state of an item (e.g. which was torn or broken) to a working condition again. -
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To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive. -
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To provide medical treatment to.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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doctor
dok′tur, n. one who has received from a university the highest degree in a faculty: a physician: a medical practitioner: a cleric especially skilled in theology or ecclesiastical law.—v.t. to treat as a doctor does: to adulterate: to make alterations on: to falsify: to address as doctor: to create a doctor.—v.i. to take physic: to practise medicine.—adj. Doc′toral.—ns. Doc′torate, Doc′torship; Doc′toress, Doc′tress, a female physician.—Doctors' Commons, before the establishment of the Divorce Court and Probate Court in 1857, the college of the doctors of civil law in London, incorporated by royal charter in 1768; Doctor's stuff, medicine. [L., 'a teacher'—docere, to teach.]
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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doctor
One who lays you up.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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doctor
Milk and water, with a little rum, and some nutmeg; also the name of a composition used by distillers, to make spirits appear stronger than they really are, or, in their phrase, better proof.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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A doctor and a clown know more than a doctor alone. -
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An old doctor, a young lawyer.
Wikipedia 
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A doctor is someone who practices medicine to treat illnesses and injuries.
Doctors go to medical school to be trained, and typically hold a college degree in medicine. Doctors once made house calls to treat patients at home, but now mostly see patients in their private offices or in hospitals. Doctors may also work for schools, companies, sports teams, or the military. Doctors are often assisted by nurses or other staff.
Doctors treat patients by diagnosing them—figuring out what is wrong—and then prescribing treatment, often drugs.
Some doctors specialize in a certain kind of medicine; they are called specialists. These doctors may only treat injuries to a certain part of the body, or only treat patients who have certain diseases, for example there are doctors who specialise in diseases of the stomach or intestines. Other doctors are "general practitioners" or "family practitioners", meaning that they do a little bit of everything and try to deal with as much of a patient's health problems as they can without sending them to a specialist. A doctor who performs surgery is called a surgeon.
Other doctors specialize in treating eyes. -
Doctor Who
The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who".
He is an alien, a "Time Lord" from the planet Gallifrey. The Doctor travels in his space-time-ship TARDIS, with which he can go anywhere in time and space. Because the TARDIS' "chameleon circuit" is broken, it looks like an old British police-box permanently. The Doctor often takes other people with him, who are usually called "companions" or "assistants". They are most often human; the most recent companion was Donna Noble.
Biography.
The Doctor did not want to stay on Gallifrey any longer, so he "borrowed" an old Type 40 TARDIS. In the TARDIS he and his granddaughter Susan Foreman left their home planet Gallifrey. They stayed for a time on Earth in the 1960s, where Susan also went to school. Her teachers, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, discovered the TARDIS. They traveled for a while with the Doctor, and returned to Earth two years later. After them the Doctor often took other people with him on his travels.
Anatomy and Regeneration.
As a Gallifreyan the Doctor looks like a human on the surface, but there are differences. One well-known difference is that he has two hearts. As a Time Lord the Doctor can also "regenerate", if his body is badly hurt and he dies. During the "regeneration", the body is healed and renewed, which includes a different appearance and personality. The regenerated person is the same person, with the same memories and basic personality trait
