doctor
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
doctor/ˈdɒktə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person who is qualified to practise medicine.
■ N. Amer. a qualified dentist or veterinary surgeon.
- 2 (Doctor) a person who holds the highest university degree.
- 3 an artificial fishing fly.
- 1 adulterate, tamper with, or falsify.
- 2 informal practise medicine.
- 3 Brit. remove the sexual organs of (an animal) so that it cannot reproduce.
– phrases
be what the doctor ordered informal be beneficial or desirable.
go for the doctor Austral./NZ informal make an all-out effort.
be what the doctor ordered informal be beneficial or desirable.
go for the doctor Austral./NZ informal make an all-out effort.
– derivatives
doctoring noun,
doctorly adjective.
doctoring noun,
doctorly adjective.
– origin ME (in the senses ‘learned person’ and ‘Doctor of the Church’): via OFr. from L. doctor ‘teacher’.
'doctor' also found in these Oxford entries:
Angelman syndrome
- barefoot doctor
- bedside
- Cape doctor
- capitation
- casebook
- case history
- caseload
- clinician
- consultant
- couch
- DCL
- DD
- death certificate
- diplomate
- DLitt
- DMus
- doc
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctor of the Church
- doctrine
- DPhil
- Dr
- DSc
- empiric
- extern
- flying doctor
- general practitioner
- geriatric
- happen
- leech
- licentiate
- LittD
- LLD
- locum tenens
- MD
- medical certificate
- medical officer
- MusD
- non-combatant
- nurse practitioner
- paramedic
- PhD
- practice
- prescribe
- private practice
- quack
- registrar
- sangoma
