doctor /dokˈtər/ noun- A licensed medical practitioner
- A dentist (N American)
- A veterinary surgeon (N American)
- A mender or repairer of something
- A name for various contrivances for removing defects or superfluities in manufacture
- A person who has received a doctorate from a university (or the Archbishop of Canterbury), the most senior academic degree in any subject (orig implying competency to teach)
- A learned man, esp a teacher (archaic)
- One of a small number of esp revered early ecclesiastical writers (also Doctor of the Church)
- A cleric especially skilled in theology or ecclesiastical law
- A ship's cook or camp-cook (slang)
- In some warm countries, a cool sea breeze conducive to health
- Material used to sophisticate, refine, adjust, etc something
- Brown sherry (old slang)
- A counterfeit coin (old slang)
- (in pl) loaded dice (old slang)
- A fish, the sea surgeon
- A type of angler's fly
transitive verb- To treat, as a doctor does
- To patch up, repair
- To sophisticate, tamper with, falsify
- To address as doctor
- To confer a doctor's degree upon
- To spay, castrate (informal)
intransitive verb To practise medicine ORIGIN: L, a teacher, from docēre to teach docˈtoral adjective Relating to the academic degree of doctor docˈtorand noun A candidate for the doctorate docˈtorate transitive verb To confer the degree of doctor upon noun The academic degree of doctor docˈtoress or docˈtress noun (facetious) - A female doctor
- A doctor's wife
doctorial /-tōˈri-əl or -töˈri-əl/ adjective Appropriate to a doctor, showing a doctor's skill or concern docˈtorly adjective docˈtorship noun docˈtor-fish noun A sea surgeon Doctors' Commons plural noun 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 noun Medicine go for the doctor (Aust informal) To make an all-out effort, give one's all what the doctor ordered (informal) The very thing that's needed |