Definition of the word doctor

Noun



He needed medicine but refused to go to a doctor.



She was under doctor’s orders not to return to work.



I saw her at the doctor’s last week.



How long will you be at the doctor?



Most of the faculty members at this college are doctors in their fields.



Dr. Smith, can you explain the exam requirements again?

Verb



They were accused of doctoring the company’s financial records.



a doctored photo of the actress



I think somebody doctored the punch.



He had time to doctor his wounds.



She doctored the sick child until the physician arrived.

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Recent Examples on the Web



When Jones asked if he’s talked to a doctor about his new habits, Kevin shared what experts have told him.


—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023




Rao and Rana play cops in the film while Pednekar is a doctor and Kapur is a village man.


—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023




And a doctor reminisces about speaking her notes into a Dictaphone instead of pecking them into an electronic chart while her patient waits.


—The Editors Of Off Duty, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023




The 38-year-old Jamestown resident said her first doctor ordered urine tests once a year.


—Arielle Zionts, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2023




Isabella McCune was ushered into a hospital room last Thursday, greeted by a woman who was, by all appearances, a doctor.


—Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023




Jim Schuler, executive director of the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association in Blacksburg, said many board members want the new commissioner to have a strong background as a medical doctor and in public health.


—Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023




The owner of a Northern Kentucky pain clinic and a doctor under his employ were found guilty on Thursday of healthcare fraud, but acquitted of drug charges, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.


—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2023




If the watch detects trouble, make an appointment with a doctor.


—Christopher Kelly M.d., Men’s Health, 24 Mar. 2023



And be thankful that Volkswagen doctored its new Jetta GLI for the inevitable time when your unfulfilled car lust bounces off the rev limiter again.


—Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2023




To get around the hashing technology, people can alter the original images, such as by cropping, adding emojis or doctoring them.


—Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023




Psychologist Sophie Nightingale and her colleagues at the University of Warwick used photo-editing software to doctor real-world photos in ways that were physically plausible, like airbrushing away wrinkles, and in ways that were physically implausible, like distorting the shapes of buildings.


—K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2017




In fact, many fitness influencers doctor their images, giving themselves unrealistic and unattainable bodies.


—Tim Pollock, Fortune Well, 22 Feb. 2023




The siblings made sure their dad, and later their mom, didn’t go alone to doctor visits.


—Dallas News, 18 May 2022




Because of Covid protocol, I wasn’t allowed to accompany my spouse to doctor appointments without special permission.


—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022




Since her move, Newbaker has spent the bulk of her days caring for her mother, making meals, moving her from her bed, assisting with hygiene, and taking her to doctor appointments.


—Rebecca Gale, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2022




Now the will to spread false narratives skillfully online has spread to governments, and the technology to doctor photos and videos enables purveyors to make disinformation more believable.


—David Bauder, Chron, 16 Oct. 2022


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noun

a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.

a person who has been awarded a doctor’s degree: He is a Doctor of Philosophy.

Older Slang. a cook, as at a camp or on a ship.

Machinery. any of various minor mechanical devices, especially one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process.

Angling. any of several artificial flies, especially the silver doctor.

an eminent scholar and teacher.

verb (used with object)

to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to: He feels he can doctor himself for just a common cold.

to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to: He doctored his cold at home.

to restore to original or working condition; repair; mend: She was able to doctor the chipped vase with a little plastic cement.

to tamper with; falsify: He doctored the birthdate on his passport.

to add a foreign substance to; adulterate: Someone had doctored the drink.

to revise, alter, or adapt (a photograph, manuscript, etc.) in order to serve a specific purpose or to improve the material: to doctor a play.

to award a doctorate to: He did his undergraduate work in the U.S. and was doctored at Oxford.

verb (used without object)

to practice medicine.

Older Use. to take medicine; receive medical treatment.

Metallurgy. (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly.

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Origin of doctor

1275–1325; Middle English docto(u)r (<Anglo-French ) <Latin, equivalent to doc(ēre) to teach + -tor-tor

OTHER WORDS FROM doctor

doc·tor·al, doc·to·ri·al [dok-tawr-ee-uhl, —tohr-], /dɒkˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-/, adjectivedoc·tor·al·ly, doc·to·ri·al·ly, adverbdoc·tor·less, adjectivedoc·tor·ship, noun

sub·doc·tor, nounsu·per·doc·tor, nounun·der·doc·tor, nounun·doc·tored, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH doctor

doctor , physician

Words nearby doctor

Doc Martens, doco, docosahexaenoic acid, docosanoic, do credit to, doctor, doctorate, Doctor Faustus, doctorfish, Doctor Livingstone, I presume?, Doctor of Philosophy

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Words related to doctor

expert, physician, professor, scientist, specialist, surgeon, medicate, reconstruct, revamp, add to, alter, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, tamper with, bones, doc, healer, intern, medic

How to use doctor in a sentence

  • Instead, the doctor informed her that he had also removed one of her fallopian tubes and that she could expect to have difficulty conceiving if she wanted to have more children.

  • Sridhar wasn’t at all surprised that Israel just imposed a new lockdown, or that Madrid — where doctors are calling the situation “March in slow motion” — is also resorting to lockdown measures.

  • A very popular example is that it’s virtually impossible to rank a website providing medical advice without an actual doctor writing the articles.

  • In other words, the original suggestion that people not wear masks derived at least to some extent from the inability of the government to provide sufficient protective equipment to doctors and nurses.

  • She says that her dream of becoming a doctor and helping people wasn’t possible at the time, but now she feels like a doctor and is so proud to be part of helping people.

  • My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.

  • That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.

  • After what seemed a desperate eternity, a doctor shook his head.

  • Not long after I was finally diagnosed, my doctor ordered a bone density scan.

  • My doctor put me on oral contraceptives to induce a period, figuring it would help build bone.

  • How little did he divine that the letter of the doctor was called forth by a communication from the countess-dowager.

  • He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.

  • You may imagine the effect this missive produced upon the proud, high-minded doctor of divinity.

  • He became a doctor in two hours, and it only cost him twenty dollars to complete his education.

  • Though, as everybody well knew, the doctor had forbidden her to lift so much as a pin!

British Dictionary definitions for doctor

noun

a person licensed to practise medicine

a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge

mainly US and Canadian a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine

Also called: Doctor of the Church (often capital) a title given to any of several of the leading Fathers or theologians in the history of the Christian Church down to the late Middle Ages whose teachings have greatly influenced orthodox Christian thought

angling any of various gaudy artificial flies

informal a person who mends or repairs things

slang a cook on a ship or at a camp

archaic a man, esp a teacher, of learning

a device used for local repair of electroplated surfaces, consisting of an anode of the plating material embedded in an absorbent material containing the solution

(in a paper-making machine) a blade that is set to scrape the roller in order to regulate the thickness of pulp or ink on it

a cool sea breeze blowing in some countriesthe Cape doctor

go for the doctor Australian slang to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race

what the doctor ordered something needed or desired

verb

(tr)

  1. to give medical treatment to
  2. to prescribe for (a disease or disorder)

(intr) informal to practise medicinehe doctored in Easter Island for six years

(tr) to repair or mend, esp in a makeshift manner

(tr) to make different in order to deceive, tamper with, falsify, or adulterate

(tr) to adapt for a desired end, effect, etc

(tr) to castrate (a cat, dog, etc)

Derived forms of doctor

doctoral or doctorial (dɒkˈtɔːrɪəl), adjective

Word Origin for doctor

C14: from Latin: teacher, from docēre to teach

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with doctor

see just what the doctor ordered.

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He took the degree of doctor of theology, and seems to have received the complimentary title of _doctor mirabilis_. ❋ Various (N/A)

This is often confusing to many who limit their use of the term doctor to refer to medical physicians, such as psy­chiatrists and cardiologists. ❋ Unknown (2011)

OZ: The word «doctor» comes from the Latin word for teacher, and like any teacher/pupil relationship, it is a two-way street and I learn much from my patients especially about these topics, so I encourage viewers to talk openly with their physicians about this and actually push their doctors a little bit to open up about integrative therapies including, prayer and meditation. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“Dr. Casey,” I said, the word doctor now sounding absolutely pornographic, “did you or did you not allow your father to cover up numerous failed classes during your medical school education?” ❋ Danny Tobey (2010)

The word doctor is from the Latin docere, meaning to teach. ❋ Ph.D. Dede Bonner (2009)

But what drug addicts do, we ` ve heard the term doctor shopping. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Good day Dr. Reimes, she said when they passed, the word doctor spat out in acidic irony. ❋ Steve Erickson (2008)

HARWE: People need to know that when you’re using the title doctor, is it a medical degree? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The unnamed person saying he ` s not a licensed person in California and has no right to counsel Britney or use the term doctor unless he ` s licensed to do so. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, the use of the title doctor in a health care setting is virtually synonymous with physician. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I work in academia and I realize that my sample size is not huge, and that, assuming the institution is accredited, anybody with an honorary doctoral degree can elect to use the title doctor — and figures such as Ben Franklin have. ❋ Bobobo (2010)

In Geppner’s view, Scholl was «an inventive genius, advertising pioneer, a quality-control fanatic, an entrepreneur without peer,» and fully deserving of the title doctor — minus the quotation marks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the U.K. the title doctor could lead to some confusion: A mailman once knocked at the door of one of my former colleagues and asked his wife if the doctor was in as his back was hurting him something chronic! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Frankly the only ones who have «earned» the title doctor in my eyes are the Ph. D., who did extensive research and defended a thesis, and the M.D., who, with residency, did four more years of schooling than everyone else. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Doctors] usually [give up] being caregivers when they meet people who provide definitions in [urbandictionary.com] ❋ Diluted (2005)

Jon went to school until he was 32 to become a Doctor, but on his first day when he failed to save his patient who had a failing liver and could not have been saved anyway, the family filed a [malpractice] lawsuit against him and he lost his job, [liscense] to practice, 16 years of his life, and several [hundred thousand] dollars in school tuition fees. Isn’t the American Legal System great? ❋ MMM_TAIYAKI (2007)

Because of medical [malpractice] [lawsuits], [medicare], medicaid doctors salaries are declining. ❋ Geoffrey (2005)

Person A: «I am a doctor»
Person B: «[HOLY SHIT] YOU ARE [AUTOMATICALLY] [PRESTIGIOUS]. HELP US ALL!!!!» ❋ Pyro23 (2011)

doctor: sir you have Diarrhea take these [pills]
patient: how much [will it] costdoctor: [1500]$ ❋ Anime Slayer (2020)

a doctor once [gave] [my brother] [poison] ❋ Nonekopopo (2020)

Why get in trouble with [cops] and criminals when you can get your [fix] [legally] from a doctor? ❋ Wazzlewz1 (2010)

doctor [sucks] ❋ Sharks28 (2016)

[Sometimes] [God] [thinks] he’s a doctor. ❋ Xntrc (2005)

[the doctor] did not help us no [matter] how hard we [tried] ❋ Nonekopopo (2020)

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ЭТИМОЛОГИЯ СЛОВА DOCTOR

From Latin: teacher, from docēre to teach.

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ПРОИЗНОШЕНИЕ СЛОВА DOCTOR

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Значение слова doctor в словаре английский языка

Первое определение врача в словаре — это лицо, имеющее лицензию на медицину. Другим определением врача является человек, получивший высшую академическую степень в любой области знаний. Доктор также является лицом, имеющим лицензию на практику стоматологии или ветеринарной медицины.

The first definition of doctor in the dictionary is a person licensed to practise medicine. Other definition of doctor is a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge. Doctor is also a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine.

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СПРЯЖЕНИЕ ГЛАГОЛА DOCTOR

PRESENT

Present

I doctor

you doctor

he/she/it doctors

we doctor

you doctor

they doctor

Present continuous

I am doctoring

you are doctoring

he/she/it is doctoring

we are doctoring

you are doctoring

they are doctoring

Present perfect

I have doctored

you have doctored

he/she/it has doctored

we have doctored

you have doctored

they have doctored

Present perfect continuous

I have been doctoring

you have been doctoring

he/she/it has been doctoring

we have been doctoring

you have been doctoring

they have been doctoring

PAST

Past

I doctored

you doctored

he/she/it doctored

we doctored

you doctored

they doctored

Past continuous

I was doctoring

you were doctoring

he/she/it was doctoring

we were doctoring

you were doctoring

they were doctoring

Past perfect

I had doctored

you had doctored

he/she/it had doctored

we had doctored

you had doctored

they had doctored

Past perfect continuous

I had been doctoring

you had been doctoring

he/she/it had been doctoring

we had been doctoring

you had been doctoring

they had been doctoring

FUTURE

Future

I will doctor

you will doctor

he/she/it will doctor

we will doctor

you will doctor

they will doctor

Future continuous

I will be doctoring

you will be doctoring

he/she/it will be doctoring

we will be doctoring

you will be doctoring

they will be doctoring

Future perfect

I will have doctored

you will have doctored

he/she/it will have doctored

we will have doctored

you will have doctored

they will have doctored

Future perfect continuous

I will have been doctoring

you will have been doctoring

he/she/it will have been doctoring

we will have been doctoring

you will have been doctoring

they will have been doctoring

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would doctor

you would doctor

he/she/it would doctor

we would doctor

you would doctor

they would doctor

Conditional continuous

I would be doctoring

you would be doctoring

he/she/it would be doctoring

we would be doctoring

you would be doctoring

they would be doctoring

Conditional perfect

I would have doctor

you would have doctor

he/she/it would have doctor

we would have doctor

you would have doctor

they would have doctor

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been doctoring

you would have been doctoring

he/she/it would have been doctoring

we would have been doctoring

you would have been doctoring

they would have been doctoring

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you doctor
we let´s doctor
you doctor

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Present Participle

doctoring

СЛОВА, РИФМУЮЩИЕСЯ СО СЛОВОМ DOCTOR

Синонимы и антонимы слова doctor в словаре английский языка

СИНОНИМЫ СЛОВА «DOCTOR»

Указанные слова имеют то же или сходное значение, что у слова «doctor», и относятся к той же грамматической категории.

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Тенденции использования слова doctor

ТЕНДЕНЦИИ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ТЕРМИНА «DOCTOR»

Тенденции

ЧАСТОТНОСТЬ

Слово используется очень часто

На показанной выше карте показана частотность использования термина «doctor» в разных странах.

Тенденции основных поисковых запросов и примеры использования слова doctor

Список основных поисковых запросов, которые пользователи ввели для доступа к нашему онлайн-словарю английский языка и наиболее часто используемые выражения со словом «doctor».

ЧАСТОТА ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ТЕРМИНА «DOCTOR» С ТЕЧЕНИЕМ ВРЕМЕНИ

На графике показано годовое изменение частотности использования слова «doctor» за последние 500 лет. Формирование графика основано на анализе того, насколько часто термин «doctor» появляется в оцифрованных печатных источниках на английский языке, начиная с 1500 года до настоящего времени.

Примеры использования в литературе на английский языке, цитаты и новости о слове doctor

ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «DOCTOR»

Известные цитаты и высказывания со словом doctor.

I was very much into science when I was young — I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

I really try to have fun. If I don’t have fun, you won’t have fun. That’s what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I’d regret it if I didn’t act.

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don’t understand what happened to me.

I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.

As a doctor, I’ve learned the importance and value of listening.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn’t have the guts to go, ‘Yes, I’m going to be an actor,’ until I was probably 21.

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «DOCTOR»

Поиск случаев использования слова doctor в следующих библиографических источниках. Книги, относящиеся к слову doctor, и краткие выдержки из этих книг для получения представления о контексте использования этого слова в литературе на английский языке.

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Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works

Dr. Saul explodes the myth that an army of medical specialists and medications is necessary to maintain good health.

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The Humanism of Doctor Who: A Critical Study in Science …

Though created as a family program, the series has dramatized serious themes in philosophy, science, religion, and politics»—Provided by publisher.

An exciting new series of writing on television. The much loved Doctor Who is definitive British TV and this book examines the oustanding stories and major themes of this long running TV classic.

4

Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and …

Doctor Dealer is the story of Larry Lavin, a bright, charismatic young man who rose from his working-class upbringing to win a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, earn Ivy League college and dental degrees, and buy his family a …

Gathers poems, a selection from the author’s autobiography, and a dozen stories about doctors, patients, errors in judgement, and breakthroughs

William Carlos Williams, Robert Coles, 1984

6

Becoming a Doctor: From Student to Specialist, …

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Provides an easy-to-read explanation of what a doctor does.

Jacqueline Laks Gorman, 2002

8

Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder

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9

The Silent World of Doctor and Patient

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10

Becoming a Good Doctor: The Place of Virtue and Character in …

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НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «DOCTOR»

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Источник

  • Defenition of the word doctor

    • A person who has completed a study of medicine, and as such tries to diagnose and cure diseases in patients.
    • A person who has obtained a doctorate degree.
    • To change the state of an item (e.g. which was torn or broken) to a working condition again.
    • To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive.
    • To provide medical treatment to.
    • children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the doctor’s office; «the children explored each other’s bodies by playing the game of doctor»
    • give medical treatment to
    • a licensed medical practitioner; «I felt so bad I went to see my doctor»
    • a leading theologian in the history of the Roman Catholic Church; «the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages»
    • a person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution; «she is a doctor of philosophy in physics»
    • restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; «She repaired her TV set»; «Repair my shoes please»
    • alter with the intention to deceive; Sophisticate rose water with geraniol»
    • children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the doctor»s office; «the children explored each other»s bodies by playing the game of doctor»
    • (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their theological teaching; «the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages»
    • alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; «Sophisticate rose water with geraniol»
    • children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician’s office
    • a licensed medical practitioner
    • a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
    • (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching
    • restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
    • alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

Synonyms for the word doctor

    • adulterate
    • bushel
    • doc
    • Doctor
    • doctor of medicine
    • Doctor of the Church
    • doctor up
    • Dr.
    • fix
    • furbish up
    • general practitioner
    • MD
    • medical doctor
    • medico
    • mend
    • physician
    • repair
    • restore
    • sophisticate
    • surgeon
    • touch on

Similar words in the doctor

    • doctor
    • doctoral
    • doctorate
    • doctorate’s
    • doctorates
    • doctored
    • doctoring
    • doctorow
    • doctorow’s

Meronymys for the word doctor

    • doctor-patient relation

Hyponyms for the word doctor

    • abortionist
    • Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina
    • Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Ros
    • Albert Schweitzer
    • Aletta Jacobs
    • allergist
    • Ambrose
    • angiologist
    • Anna Howard Shaw
    • Aquinas
    • Athanasius
    • Athanasius the Great
    • Augustine
    • Augustine of Hippo
    • Averroes
    • Avicenna
    • Baeda
    • Barany
    • Bartholin
    • Basil
    • Basil of Caesarea
    • Basil the Great
    • Beda
    • Bede
    • Benjamin Rush
    • Bruce
    • Burrill Bernard Crohn
    • Caspar Bartholin
    • Christiaan Eijkman
    • Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
    • cobble
    • Crohn
    • darn
    • David Bruce
    • Down
    • E. A. von Willebrand
    • Edward Jenner
    • Eijkman
    • Erik Adolf von Willebrand
    • Erik von Willebrand
    • Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot
    • Eusebius Hieronymus
    • Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus
    • extern
    • Fallot
    • fiddle
    • fill
    • Franz Anton Mesmer
    • Friedrich Anton Mesmer
    • gastroenterologist
    • general practitioner
    • Gilbert
    • GP
    • Gregory
    • Gregory I
    • Gregory Nazianzen
    • Gregory of Nazianzen
    • Gregory the Great
    • hakeem
    • hakim
    • Harry F. Klinefelter
    • Harry Fitch Kleinfelter
    • Harvey
    • heel
    • Hieronymus
    • Hodgkin
    • house physician
    • houseman
    • ibn-Roshd
    • ibn-Sina
    • intern
    • interne
    • Jacobs
    • Jenner
    • Jerome
    • John Chrysostom
    • John L. H. Down
    • Klinefelter
    • Lozier
    • Manson
    • medical extern
    • medical intern
    • medical specialist
    • Mesmer
    • operating surgeon
    • Paracelsus
    • patch
    • patch up
    • Peter Mark Roget
    • Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
    • piece
    • point
    • primary care physician
    • quack
    • reheel
    • repoint
    • resident
    • resident physician
    • resole
    • revamp
    • Robert Barany
    • Roget
    • Ross
    • Rush
    • Saint Ambrose
    • Saint Athanasius
    • Saint Augustine
    • Saint Baeda
    • Saint Beda
    • Saint Bede
    • Saint Gregory I
    • Saint Jerome
    • Saint Thomas
    • Saint Thomas Aquinas
    • sawbones
    • Schweitzer
    • Shaw
    • Simpson
    • Sir David Bruce
    • Sir James Young Simpson
    • Sir Patrick Manson
    • Sir Ronald Ross
    • sole
    • specialist
    • St. Ambrose
    • St. Athanasius
    • St. Augustine
    • St. Baeda
    • St. Basil
    • St. Basil the Great
    • St. Beda
    • St. Bede
    • St. Gregory I
    • St. Gregory of Nazianzen
    • St. Jerome
    • St. John Chrysostom
    • St. Thomas
    • St. Thomas Aquinas
    • surgeon
    • Sydenham
    • The English Hippocrates
    • the Venerable Bede
    • Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohe
    • Thomas Aquinas
    • Thomas Hodgkin
    • Thomas Sydenham
    • tinker
    • trouble-shoot
    • troubleshoot
    • vamp
    • vet
    • veterinarian
    • veterinary
    • veterinary surgeon
    • von Willebrand
    • Willebrand
    • William Gilbert
    • William Harvey

Hypernyms for the word doctor

    • adulterate
    • alter
    • ameliorate
    • amend
    • better
    • bookman
    • care for
    • change
    • child’s play
    • debase
    • dilute
    • improve
    • load
    • medical man
    • medical practitioner
    • meliorate
    • play
    • Roman Catholic
    • scholar
    • scholarly person
    • stretch
    • student
    • theologian
    • theologiser
    • theologist
    • theologizer
    • treat

Antonyms for the word doctor

    • break
    • bust

Proverbs and sayings for the word doctor

    • an apple a day keeps the doctor away

Idioms for the word doctor

    • just what the doctor ordered

See other words

    • What is tall
    • The definition of tickler
    • The interpretation of the word fault
    • What is meant by empower
    • The lexical meaning service
    • The dictionary meaning of the word filter
    • The grammatical meaning of the word beaten
    • Meaning of the word rude
    • Literal and figurative meaning of the word rug
    • The origin of the word catch
    • Synonym for the word average
    • Antonyms for the word startup
    • Homonyms for the word start-up
    • Hyponyms for the word overkill
    • Holonyms for the word cover
    • Hypernyms for the word boast
    • Proverbs and sayings for the word enjoy
    • Translation of the word in other languages cost
Источник

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • doctour (obsolete)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English doctor (“an expert, authority on a subject”), doctour, from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I 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”), and doublet of docent.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒktə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɑktɚ/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈdɔktə/, /ˈdɒktə/
  • Rhymes: -ɒktə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: doc‧tor

Noun[edit]

doctor (plural doctors)

  1. 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 D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
    If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.

    • 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]:

      By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.

  2. 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.
  3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
  4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  5. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.

    • 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:

      So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.

    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

      one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel

  6. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
    the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
    the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called «donkey engine»

    • 2010, Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology, page 172:

      The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.

  7. A fish, the friar skate.
  8. (obsolete, nautical, slang) A ship’s cook.
    • 1844, William Robert Wilde, Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean (page 124)
      […] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship’s cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]
    • 1881, The United Service (volume 5, page 212)
      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.”

Usage notes[edit]

  • Doctor is capitalized when used as a title:
    Doctor Smith
  • In the UK and Commonwealth (except Canada), a surgeon (including a dental or veterinary surgeon) is commonly addressed as Mr./Ms./Mrs. rather than Doctor, even if holding a doctor’s degree.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (physician): doc (informal), family doctor, general practitioner, GP (UK), medic, physician, sawbones (slang), surgeon (who undertakes surgery); see also Thesaurus:physician
  • (veterinarian): vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon

Derived terms[edit]

See also Types of academic doctor below

  • an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
  • an apple a day keeps the doctor away
  • Angelic Doctor
  • barefoot doctor
  • bedoctor
  • Cape Doctor
  • cleaning-doctor
  • clown doctor
  • color-doctor, colour-doctor
  • company doctor
  • couch doctor
  • dedoctor
  • doc
  • doctor bird
  • doctor blade
  • 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 shopping
  • doctor up
  • doctor-assisted suicide
  • doctor-box
  • doctor-fish
  • doctor-gum
  • doctor-shears
  • doctoral
  • doctordom
  • doctoress, doctress
  • doctorhead, doctorhood
  • doctorise, doctorize
  • doctorish
  • doctorishness
  • doctorism
  • doctorless
  • doctorly
  • doctor’s certificate
  • Doctors’ Commons
  • doctor’s curse
  • doctor’s gum
  • Doctors of the Church
  • doctor’s office
  • doctor’s orders
  • doctor’s stuff, doctor-stuff
  • doctorship
  • doctorspeak
  • dog doctor
  • Dr, Dr.
  • eye doctor
  • family doctor
  • flying doctor
  • Fremantle Doctor
  • good doctor
  • head doctor
  • herb doctor
  • honorary doctor
  • horse doctor
  • horse-doctor
  • I am a doctor
  • is anyone here a doctor
  • kaffir doctor
  • lint doctor
  • lint-doctor
  • mad-doctor
  • medical doctor
  • obeah doctor
  • outfit doctor
  • paradoctor
  • plague doctor
  • play doctor
  • pox doctor’s clerk
  • quack doctor
  • rain-doctor
  • rig doctor
  • root doctor
  • saw doctor
  • school doctor
  • script doctor
  • snake doctor
  • spin doctor
  • spirit doctor
  • the good doctor
  • under the doctor
  • under-doctor
  • underdoctored
  • undoctor
  • undoctored
  • water doctor
  • water-doctor
  • what the doctor ordered, just what the doctor ordered
  • witch doctor
  • woman doctor
  • you are the doctor, you’re the doctor

[edit]

  • doctrix

types of academic doctor

  • Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (D.A.O.M.)
  • Doctor of Arts (D.A.)
  • Doctor of Architecture (D.Arch.)
  • Doctor of Applied Science (D.A.S.)
  • Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
  • Doctor of Chemistry (D.Chem.)
  • Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.)
  • Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
  • Doctor of Criminal Justice (D.C.J.)
  • Doctor of Comparative/Civil Law (D.C.L.)
  • Doctor of Computer Science (D.C.S.)
  • Doctor of Criminology (D.Crim.)
  • Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.)
  • Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.)
  • Doctor of Design (Dr.DES.)
  • Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
  • Doctor of Environmental Design (D.E.D.)
  • Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng.)
  • Doctor of Environment (D.Env.)
  • Doctor of Engineering Science (D.E.Sc./Sc.D.E.)
  • Doctor of Forestry (D.F.)
  • Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.)
  • Doctor of Geological Science (D.G.S.)
  • Doctor of Hebrew Literature/Letters (D.H.L.)
  • Doctor of Health and Safety (D.H.S.)
  • Doctor of Hebrew Studies (D.H.S.)
  • Doctor of Industrial Technology (D.I.T.)
  • Doctor of Information Technology (D.I.T.)
  • Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.)
  • Doctor of Library Science (D.L.S.)
  • Doctor of Music (D.M.)
  • Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A., A.Mus.D.)
  • Doctor of Musical Education (D.M.E.)
  • Doctor of Ministry (D.Min./D.M.)
  • Doctor of Modern Languages (D.M.L.)
  • Doctor of Music Ministry (D.M.M.)
  • Doctor of Medical Science (D.M.Sc.)
  • Doctor of Nursing Science (D.N.Sc.)
  • Doctor of Public Administration (D.P.A.)
  • Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
  • Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
  • Doctor of Physical Education (D.P.E.)
  • Doctor of Physical Therapy (D.P.T.)
  • Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.)
  • Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.)
  • Doctor of Public Health (D.P.H.)
  • Doctor of Professional Studies (D.P.S.)
  • Doctor of Religious Education (D.R.E.)
  • Doctor of Recreation (D.Rec./D.R.)
  • Doctor of Science (D.Sc./Sc.D.)
  • Doctor of Science in Dentistry (D.Sc.D.)
  • Doctor of Science and Hygiene (D.Sc.H.)
  • Doctor of Science in Veterinary Medicine (D.Sc.V.M.)
  • Doctor of Sacred Music (D.S.M.)
  • Doctor of Social Science (D.S.Sc.)
  • Doctor of Social Work (D.S.W.)
  • Doctor of Canon Law (J.C.D.)
  • Doctor of the Science of Law (L.Sc.D.)
  • Doctor of Rehabilitation (Rh.D.)
  • Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.)
  • Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
  • Doctor of Technology (D.Tech.)
  • Doctor of Theology (Th.D.)
  • Doctor of the University (D.Univ)
  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine or Veterinary Medical Doctor (D.V.M./V.M.D)
  • Divinitatis Doctor, Doctor of Divinity (D.D.)
  • Juris Doctor, Doctor of Law (J.D.)
  • Optometry Doctor, Doctor of Optometry (O.D.)
  • Legum Doctor, Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
  • Literarum Doctor, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)
  • Medicine Doctor, Doctor of Medicine (M.D./D.M.)
  • Music Doctor, Doctor of Music (D.Mus.)

Descendants[edit]

Descendants

  • Sranan Tongo: datra
  • Tok Pisin: dokta
  • → Brunei Malay: doktor
  • → Cebuano: doktor
  • → Dari: داکتر‎ (dâktar)
  • → Ewe: ɖɔkta
  • → Hausa: doktā̀
  • → Hebrew: דוקטור‎ (dóktor)
  • → Hindi: डॉक्टर (ḍŏkṭar)
  • → Lote: dokta
  • → Luo: dokta
  • → Malay: doktor
  • → Nepali: डाक्टर (ḍākṭar)
  • →⇒ Sidamo: doktorichcha
  • → Swahili: daktari
  • → Thai: ดอกเตอร์ (dɔ́k-dtə̂ə)
  • → Unami: ntaktël
  • → Urdu: ڈاکٹر‎ (ḍākṭar)
  • → Welsh: doctor

Translations[edit]

person who has attained a doctorate

  • Afrikaans: doktor
  • Arabic: دُكْتُور‎ m (duktūr)
    Egyptian Arabic: دكتور‎ m (duktūr)
    Hijazi Arabic: دكتور‎ m (duktōr), دكتورة‎ f (duktōra)
  • Aramaic:
    Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܘܼܟ݂ܛܘܼܪ‎ n (duḳṭur)
  • Armenian: դոկտոր (hy) (doktor)
  • Asturian: doctor m
  • Azerbaijani: doktor (az)
  • Bashkir: табип (tabip)
  • Belarusian: до́ктар m (dóktar)
  • Bulgarian: до́ктор (bg) m (dóktor), до́кторка f (dóktorka)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 博士 (yue) (bok3 si6)
    Mandarin: 博士 (zh) (bóshì)
  • Czech: doktor (cs) m
  • Danish: doktor c
  • Dutch: doctor (nl) m or f
  • Esperanto: doktoro, virdoktoro (male) doktorino (female)
  • Finnish: tohtori (fi)
  • French: docteur (fr) m, docteure (fr) f, docteuse (fr) f, doctoresse (fr) f
  • Galician: doutor m
  • Georgian: დოქტორი (dokṭori)
  • German: Doktor (de) m, Doktorin (de) f
  • Greek: διδάκτορας (el) m or f (didáktoras)
  • Hebrew: דוֹקטוֹר‎ (he) m (dóktor)
  • Hindi: डॉक्टर m (ḍŏkṭar)
  • Hungarian: doktor (hu)
  • Icelandic: læknir (is) m, doktor (is) m
  • Ido: doktoro (io), doktorulo (io) (male), doktorino (io) (female)
  • Indonesian: doktor (id)
  • Irish: dochtúir (ga) m
  • Italian: dottore (it) m, dottoressa (it) f
  • Japanese: 博士 (ja) (はくし, hakushi, はかせ hakase)
  • Kazakh: доктор (doktor), доқтыр (doqtyr)
  • Khmer: បណ្ឌិត (km) (bɑndɨt)
  • Korean: 박사(博士) (ko) (baksa)
  • Kurdish:
  • Kashmiri: طبِیٖب/ڈَاکٹر‎}
    Central Kurdish: دکتۆر‎ (diktor)
  • Kyrgyz: доктор (ky) (doktor)
  • Latvian: doktors m, doktore f
  • Lithuanian: daktaras (lt) m, daktarė f
  • Luo: dokta
  • Macedonian: доктор (doktor), докторка f (doktorka)
  • Malay: doktor (ms) (Malaysia, Singapore), dokter (ms) (Indonesia incl. Riau)
  • Maltese: dottor m, dottoressa f
  • Manx: olloo
  • Norman: docteu m
  • Persian: دکتر‎ (fa) (doktor)
  • Polish: doktor (pl) m
  • Portuguese: doutor (pt) m, doutora (pt) f, doutorado (pt) m, doutorada f
  • Romanian: doctor (ro) m or f
  • Russian: до́ктор (ru) m or f (dóktor) (male or female), до́кторша (ru) f (dóktorša) (colloquial for female doctors, nonstandard)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ollamh m
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Roman: до̏ктор m, до̏кторица f, до̏кто̄рка f
    Roman: dȍktor (sh) m, dȍktorica (sh) f, dȍktōrka f
  • Sicilian: dutturi (scn) m, dutturissa f
  • Skolt Sami: dåhttar
  • Slovak: doktor (sk) m
  • Slovene: doktor m, doktorica f
  • Spanish: doctor (es) m, doctora (es) f
  • Swahili: daktari (sw), dokta
  • Swedish: doktor (sv)
  • Tagalog: paham
  • Tajik: доктор (tg) (doktor)
  • Telugu: డాక్టర్ (te) (ḍākṭar), డాక్టరు (te) (ḍākṭaru)
  • Thai: ดอกเตอร์ (dɔ́k-dtə̂ə), ดุษฎีบัณฑิต (dùt-sà-dii-ban-dìt)
  • Turkish: doktor (tr)
  • Turkmen: doktor
  • Ukrainian: до́ктор (uk) m (dóktor)
  • Unami: ntaktël
  • Uyghur: دوكتور‎ (doktor)
  • Uzbek: doktor (uz)
  • Venetian: dotor m
  • Vietnamese: tiến sĩ (vi) (進士)
  • Volapük: dokan (vo), hidokan (male), jidokan (female), dokel, (older term, obsolete)
  • Walloon: docteur (wa) m
  • Yiddish: דאָקטאָר‎ m (doktor)

medical doctor — See also translations at physician

  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 醫生／医生 (zh) (yīshēng)

Verb[edit]

doctor (third-person singular simple present doctors, present participle doctoring, simple past and past participle doctored)

  1. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.

    Her children doctored her back to health.

  2. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
    • 2017, «Do No Harm», season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time
      Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you’re a doctor now. Good luck.
      Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don’t know how to doctor!
  3. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
  4. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

    They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.

    We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.

  5. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.

    Mendel’s discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.

  6. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

    To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.

  7. (transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.

Translations[edit]

act as a medical doctor to

  • Bulgarian: лекувам (bg) (lekuvam)
  • Cherokee: ᎧᏅᏫᎠ (kanvwia)
  • Danish: doktorere
  • German: verarzten (de)
  • Greek: θεραπεύω (el) (therapévo), γιατρεύω (el) (giatrévo)
    Ancient: ἰατρεύω (iatreúō)
  • Italian: curare (it), medicare (it)
  • Khmer: មើល (km) (məəl)
  • Romanian: îngriji (ro), doctori (ro), trata (ro)
  • Russian: лечи́ть (ru) impf (lečítʹ), врачева́ть (ru) impf (vračevátʹ)
  • Swahili: daktari (sw)

award the title of doctor to

alter or make obscure, in order to deceive

  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 篡改 (zh) (cuàngǎi)
  • Czech: falzifikovat
  • Danish: forfalske
  • Dutch: dokteren (nl), valsificeren
  • Finnish: tohtoroida
  • French: falsifier (fr)
  • Greek: αλλοιώνω (el) (alloióno), νοθεύω (el) (nothévo)
  • Italian: adulterare (it), falsificare (it)
  • Japanese: 改竄 (ja) (kaizan)
  • Polish: fabrykować (pl) impf, fałszować (pl) impf, falsyfikować (pl) impf
  • Romagnol: adulterêr
  • Romanian: falsifica (ro)
  • Russian: фальсифици́ровать (ru) impf (falʹsificírovatʹ), сфальсифици́ровать (ru) pf (sfalʹsificírovatʹ), подде́лывать (ru) impf (poddélyvatʹ), подде́лать (ru) pf (poddélatʹ)
  • Spanish: adulterar (es)
  • Swedish: fiffla med, manipulera (sv)

See also[edit]

  • doctorand
  • Wikipedia article on doctorates
  • surgeon

Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

doctor m (plural doctores)

  1. doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin doctor.

Noun[edit]

doctor m (plural doctors, feminine doctora)

  1. doctor

[edit]

  • doctoral
  • doctorat

Further reading[edit]

  • “doctor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “doctor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
  • “doctor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “doctor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch doctor, from Latin doctor (“teacher, instructor”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔk.tɔr/
  • Hyphenation: doc‧tor
  • Rhymes: -ɔktɔr

Noun[edit]

doctor m (plural doctoren or doctors, diminutive doctortje n)

  1. doctor (person who has attained a doctorate)

Synonyms[edit]

  • dr.

[edit]

  • doctorandus

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: doktor
  • → Indonesian: doktor

See also[edit]

  • dokter

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From doceō (“I teach”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdok.tor/, [ˈd̪ɔkt̪ɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdok.tor/, [ˈd̪ɔkt̪or]

Noun[edit]

doctor m (genitive doctōris, feminine doctrīx or doctorissa); third declension

  1. teacher, instructor

    • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.1310–1312:

      […] et validos partim prae se misere leones
      cum doctoribus armatis saevisque magistris
      qui moderarier his possent vinclisque tenere,

      […] and some let out before them strong lions,
      with armed trainers and fierce masters
      to manage them and hold them in restraints,
  2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) catechist

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative doctor doctōrēs
Genitive doctōris doctōrum
Dative doctōrī doctōribus
Accusative doctōrem doctōrēs
Ablative doctōre doctōribus
Vocative doctor doctōrēs

Derived terms[edit]

  • doctōrō (Mediaeval)
  • doctrīna

[edit]

  • doceō
  • docibilis
  • docibilitās
  • docilis
  • docilitās
  • doctē
  • doctificus
  • doctiusculē
  • doctrīnālis
  • doctus

Descendants[edit]

  • Emilian: dutåur
  • Friulian: dotôr
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Dalmatian: dotuar
    • Italian: dottore
    • Sicilian: dutturi
    • → Maltese: dottor
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: doutor
    • Galician: doutor
    • Portuguese: doutor
  • Sardinian: duttore, datori
  • Venetian: dotor
    • → Cimbrian: dotóar
Borrowed terms
  • → Albanian: doktor
  • → Arabic: دُكْتُور‎ (doktōr, duktūr)
    Egyptian Arabic: دُكْتُور‎ (duktūr)
    Hijazi Arabic: دُكْتور‎ (duktōr)
  • → Armenian: դոկտոր (doktor)
  • → Asturian: doktor
  • → Belarusian: доктар (dóktar)
  • → Bulgarian: доктор (doktor)
  • → Catalan: doctor
  • → Central Kurdish: دکتۆر‎ (diktor)
  • → Czech: doktor
  • → Danish: doktor
  • → Estonian: doktor
  • → Faroese: doktari
  • → Georgian: დოქტორი (dokṭori)
  • → German: Doktor, Doctor; Dr.
    • → Romanian: doctor
  • → German Low German: Dokter
  • → Hungarian: doktor
  • → Icelandic: doktor
  • → Indonesian: doktor
  • → Irish: dochtúir
  • → Luxembourgish: Dokter
  • → Middle Dutch: doctor
    • Dutch: doctor
      • Afrikaans: doktor
      • → Indonesian: doktor
    • Dutch: dokter
      • Afrikaans: dokter
      • Jersey Dutch: dâktor
      • Negerhollands: doktu, dokter
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: dáktar
      • → Caribbean Javanese: dhokter
      • → Indonesian: dokter
        • → Balinese: ᬤᭀᬓ᭄ᬢᭂᬃ (dokter)
        • → Javanese: ꦝꦺꦴꦏ꧀ꦠꦼꦂ (dhokter)
        • → Minangkabau: doto, dotor
        • → Nias: doto
        • → Sundanese: ᮓᮧᮊ᮪ᮒᮨᮁ (dokter)
        • → Ternate: dokter
      • → Papiamentu: dòkter, dòchter, dòktu, dokter
      • → Sranan Tongo: datra
        • → Aukan: dataa
        • → Galibi Carib: datra
        • → Trió: ratra
    • Limburgish: dókter
  • → Latvian: doktors
  • → Lithuanian: daktaras
  • → Macedonian: доктор (doktor)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: doktor
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: doktor
  • → Old French: doctur, docteur
    • Anglo-Norman: doctour
      • → Middle English: doctour, doctor
        • English: doctor (see there for further descendants)
        • Scots: doctor
    • French: docteur
      • → Arabic: دُكْتُور‎ (duktūr)
      • → Kaba: dòktórò
      • → Persian: دکتر‎ (doktor)
      • → Turkish: doktor
        • → Ladino: doktor
      • → Vietnamese: đốc-tờ
    • Norman: docteu
    • Walloon: docteur
  • → Polish: doktor
  • → Russian: до́ктор (dóktor) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Saterland Frisian: Dokter
  • → Serbo-Croatian: doktor / доктор
  • → Slovak: doktor
  • → Slovene: doktor
  • → Spanish: doctor, Dr., dostor, dotor
    • → Tagalog: doktor
    • → Yaqui: takter
  • → Swedish: doktor
    • → Finnish: tohtori
  • → Ukrainian: доктор (doktor)
  • → Vilamovian: dökter
  • → Welsh: doethur
  • → Yiddish: דאָקטאָר‎ (doktor)

References[edit]

  • “doctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “doctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • doctor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • doctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • doctor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Romanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • doftor (popular)
  • доктор (post-1930s (Moldavian) Cyrillic spelling)

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin doctor (17th c.), via French docteur or German Doktor.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ ˈdok.tor ]

Noun[edit]

doctor m (plural doctori, feminine equivalent doctoriță or (nonstandard) doctoră)

  1. doctor

Declension[edit]

See also[edit]

  • medic

Spanish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • Dr., dostor, dotor

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin doctor.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /doɡˈtoɾ/ [d̪oɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: doc‧tor

Noun[edit]

doctor m (plural doctores, feminine doctora, feminine plural doctoras)

  1. doctor (Ph.D.)
  2. physician
    Synonym: médico

[edit]

  • doctorado
  • doctorante

Descendants[edit]

  • → Tagalog: doktor
  • → Yaqui: takter

Further reading[edit]

  • “doctor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Источник

doc·tor

 (dŏk′tər)

n.

1.

a. A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine or a school of osteopathic medicine; a physician.

b. Any of certain other healthcare professionals, such as a dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or veterinarian.

2. A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.

3.

a. A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.

b. A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.

4. Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.

5. Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.

6. A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.

v. doc·tored, doc·tor·ing, doc·tors

v.tr.

1. Informal To give medical treatment to: «[He] does more than practice medicine. He doctors people. There’s a difference» (Charles Kuralt).

2. To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.

3.

a. To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself: doctored the evidence.

b. To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of: doctor the soup with a dash of sherry.

c. To alter or modify for a specific end: doctored my standard speech for the small-town audience.

d. Baseball To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement: was ejected because he doctored the ball with a piece of sandpaper.

v.intr. Informal

To practice medicine.

[Middle English, an expert, authority, from Old French docteur, from Latin doctor, teacher, from docēre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]

doc′tor·al (dŏk′tə-rəl, dŏk-tôr′əl) adj.

doc′tor·ly adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

doctor

(ˈdɒktə)

n

1. (Medicine) a person licensed to practise medicine

2. (Education) a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge

3. (Veterinary Science) chiefly US and Canadian a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine

4. (Dentistry) chiefly US and Canadian a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine

5. (Theology) (often capital) Also called: Doctor of the Church a title given to any of several of the leading Fathers or theologians in the history of the Christian Church down to the late Middle Ages whose teachings have greatly influenced orthodox Christian thought

6. (Angling) angling any of various gaudy artificial flies

7. informal a person who mends or repairs things

8. (Cookery) slang a cook on a ship or at a camp

9. (Education) archaic a man, esp a teacher, of learning

10. (Metallurgy) a device used for local repair of electroplated surfaces, consisting of an anode of the plating material embedded in an absorbent material containing the solution

11. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (in a paper-making machine) a blade that is set to scrape the roller in order to regulate the thickness of pulp or ink on it

12. (Physical Geography) a cool sea breeze blowing in some countries: the Cape doctor.

13. go for the doctor slang Austral to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race

14. what the doctor ordered something needed or desired

vb

15. (Medicine) (tr)

a. to give medical treatment to

b. to prescribe for (a disease or disorder)

16. (Medicine) (intr) informal to practise medicine: he doctored in Easter Island for six years.

17. (tr) to repair or mend, esp in a makeshift manner

18. (tr) to make different in order to deceive, tamper with, falsify, or adulterate

19. (tr) to adapt for a desired end, effect, etc

20. (Veterinary Science) (tr) to castrate (a cat, dog, etc)

[C14: from Latin: teacher, from docēre to teach]

ˈdoctoral, doctorial adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

doc•tor

(ˈdɒk tər)

n.

1. a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.

2. a person who has been awarded a doctor’s degree.

3. any of several artificial angling flies.

4. an eminent scholar and teacher.

5. a person skilled in repairing or improving something broken or flawed.

v.t.

6. to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to.

7. to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to.

8. to restore to original or working condition; repair.

9. to tamper with; falsify: to doctor the birthdate on a passport.

10. to tamper with the ingredients of (a food or drink) in order to improve flavor.

11. to revise, alter, or adapt for a specific purpose: to doctor a play.

v.i.

12. to practice medicine.

[1275–1325; Middle English docto(u)r (< Anglo-French) < Latin, derivative of docēre to teach]

doc′tor•al, doc•to′ri•al (-ˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-) adj.

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

doctor

, physician — Doctor is derived from Latin doctus, «having been taught; learned,» from docere, «to teach»; physician comes from Latin physica, «natural science; physics.»

See also related terms for taught.

Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

doctor

Past participle: doctored
Gerund: doctoring

Imperative
doctor
doctor
Present
I doctor
you doctor
he/she/it doctors
we doctor
you doctor
they doctor
Preterite
I doctored
you doctored
he/she/it doctored
we doctored
you doctored
they doctored
Present Continuous
I am doctoring
you are doctoring
he/she/it is doctoring
we are doctoring
you are doctoring
they are doctoring
Present Perfect
I have doctored
you have doctored
he/she/it has doctored
we have doctored
you have doctored
they have doctored
Past Continuous
I was doctoring
you were doctoring
he/she/it was doctoring
we were doctoring
you were doctoring
they were doctoring
Past Perfect
I had doctored
you had doctored
he/she/it had doctored
we had doctored
you had doctored
they had doctored
Future
I will doctor
you will doctor
he/she/it will doctor
we will doctor
you will doctor
they will doctor
Future Perfect
I will have doctored
you will have doctored
he/she/it will have doctored
we will have doctored
you will have doctored
they will have doctored
Future Continuous
I will be doctoring
you will be doctoring
he/she/it will be doctoring
we will be doctoring
you will be doctoring
they will be doctoring
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been doctoring
you have been doctoring
he/she/it has been doctoring
we have been doctoring
you have been doctoring
they have been doctoring
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been doctoring
you will have been doctoring
he/she/it will have been doctoring
we will have been doctoring
you will have been doctoring
they will have been doctoring
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been doctoring
you had been doctoring
he/she/it had been doctoring
we had been doctoring
you had been doctoring
they had been doctoring
Conditional
I would doctor
you would doctor
he/she/it would doctor
we would doctor
you would doctor
they would doctor
Past Conditional
I would have doctored
you would have doctored
he/she/it would have doctored
we would have doctored
you would have doctored
they would have doctored

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

doctor

A person who has been awarded the highest academic degree in a particular subject by a college or university.

Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun 1. doctor - a licensed medical practitionerdoctor — a licensed medical practitioner; «I felt so bad I went to see my doctor»

doc, physician, Dr., MD, medico

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)

medical man, medical practitioner — someone who practices medicine

primary care physician — the physician who provides primary care; «the primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system»

quack — an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

medical specialist, specialist — practices one branch of medicine

operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon — a physician who specializes in surgery

vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon — a doctor who practices veterinary medicine

doctor-patient relation — the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient
2. 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

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

theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer — someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
3. 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»

child’s play, play — activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules; «Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child»
4. doctor - a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institutiondoctor — a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; «she is a doctor of philosophy in physics»

Dr.

bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student — a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
Verb 1. doctor — alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; «Sophisticate rose water with geraniol»

doctor up, sophisticate

adulterate, dilute, debase, load, stretch — corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; «adulterate liquor»
2. doctor — give medical treatment 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»

care for, treat — provide treatment for; «The doctor treated my broken leg»; «The nurses cared for the bomb victims»; «The patient must be treated right away or she will die»; «Treat the infection with antibiotics»

vet — provide veterinary care for
3. doctor - restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or brokendoctor — restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; «She repaired her TV set»; «Repair my shoes please»

bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on, restore

ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better — to make better; «The editor improved the manuscript with his changes»

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 — repair by adding pieces; «She pieced the china cup»

cobble — repair or mend; «cobble shoes»

repoint, point — repair the joints of bricks; «point a chimney»

troubleshoot, trouble-shoot — 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 — provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; «revamp my old boots»

reheel, heel — put a new heel on; «heel shoes»

darn — repair by sewing; «darn socks»

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

doctor

verb

1. change, alter, interfere with, disguise, pervert, fudge, tamper with, tinker with, misrepresent, falsify, meddle with, mess about with They doctored the photograph.

2. add to, spike, cut, mix something with something, dilute, water down, adulterate He had doctored her milk.

Quotations
«God heals, and the doctor takes the fee» [Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack]
«Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth» [Voltaire Philosophical Dictionary]
«The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman» [Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation]
«God and the doctor we alike adore»
«But only when in danger, not before;»
«The danger o’er, both are alike requited,»
«God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted» [John Owen Epigrams]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

doctor

verb

1. Informal. To give medical aid to:

2. To restore to proper condition or functioning:

3. To impart a false character to (something) by alteration:

4. To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances:

The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Translations

دكتوردُكْتور: دَرَجَة دُكْتوراهطبيبطَبيبطَبِيب

доктор

lékařdoktorfalzifikovatkurýrovatpančovat

lægedoktorbehandle

kuracisto

arstdoktor

پزشك

lääkäritohtoritohtoroidaeläinlääkäri

liječnikveterinarveterinarkadoktordoktorica

orvosdoktordoktornőmegvizezorvosnő

dokterdoktor

doktorlæknirskipta sér af; bæta e-u íveita læknismeîferîdýralæknir

医者

의사

medicamedicus

daktarasdaktaro laipsnisgydytigydytisgydytojas

ārstētārstsdoktorspiejaukt

doctormedic

doktorkurírovaťpančovať

doktordoktoricazdravnik

läkaredoktor

แพทย์

докторлікар

ڈاکٹر

bác sĩtiến sĩ

doctor

[ˈdɒktəʳ]

A. N

1. (Med) → médico/a m/f
to go to the doctor’s → ir al médico
Doctor Brown → el doctor Brown
to be under the doctor → estar bajo tratamiento médico
it was just what the doctor ordered → fue mano de santo

2. (Univ) → doctor(a) m/f (of en) DEGREE

B. VT

3. (= castrate) [+ cat, dog etc] → castrar

C. CPD doctor’s degree N → doctorado m
doctor’s excuse (US) doctor’s line (Brit) doctor’s note (Brit) N → baja f (médica)

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

doctor

[ˈdɒktər]

vt

(= falsify) [+ text, document, picture, figures] → falsifier

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

doctor

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

doctor

(ˈdoktə) noun

(often abbreviated to Dr when written in titles).

1. a person who is trained to treat ill people. Doctor Davidson; You should call the doctor if you are ill; I’ll have to go to the doctor.

2. a person who has gained the highest university degree in any subject.

verb

1. to interfere with; to add something to (usually alcohol or drugs). Someone had doctored her drink.

2. to treat with medicine etc. I’m doctoring my cold with aspirin.

ˈdoctorate (-rət) noun

the degree of Doctor.

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

doctor

→ طَبِيب lékař læge Arzt γιατρός doctor, médico lääkäri docteur liječnik dottore 医者 의사 dokter lege lekarz médico врач läkare แพทย์ doktor bác sĩ 医生

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

doc·tor

n. doctor-a, médico-a; pop. doctor-a,

___’s discretion → al criterio del ___; según opinión facultativa;

___’s orders → órdenes del ___.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

doctor, doc

(fam) n médico -ca mf, doctor -ra mf* ; — on call médico de guardia; family — médico de cabecera, médico de la familia; on-call — médico de guardia; primary care — médico de atención primaria, médico de cabecera; private — médico privado (V. también physician.)

* abbreviated in front of surnames as el Dr. and la Dra.

English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Источник

Other forms: doctors; doctored; doctoring

You see doctor, and you think of someone doing good — like the medical doctor who saves lives. However, a person who doctors or tampers with a document is adding something wrong or harmful to it, like a lie.

Doctor is the Latin word for «teacher,» which makes sense since your doctor is often the one teaching you about how to take care of your body. Anyone who has a PhD, be it in English or Egyptology, is also referred to as a doctor because she holds a doctorate degree. But beware, there’s also a market out there for doctored, or tampered-with diplomas, where you can buy a fake degree to call yourself a doctor.

Definitions of doctor

  1. noun

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

    “she is a
    doctor of philosophy in physics”

    synonyms:

    Dr.

  2. noun

    a licensed medical practitioner

    “I felt so bad I went to see my
    doctor”

    synonyms:

    Dr., MD, doc, medico, physician

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    Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd

    Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198)

    Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina

    Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)

    Robert Barany

    Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936)

    Caspar Bartholin

    Danish physician who discovered Bartholin’s gland (1585-1629)

    Sir David Bruce

    Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)

    Burrill Bernard Crohn

    United States physician who specialized in diseases of the intestines; he was the first to describe regional ileitis which is now known as Crohn’s disease (1884-1983)

    John L. H. Down

    English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)

    Christiaan Eijkman

    Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930)

    Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot

    French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot’s tetralogy (1850-1911)

    William Gilbert

    English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

    William Harvey

    English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)

    Thomas Hodgkin

    English physician who first described Hodgkin’s disease (1798-1866)

    George Huntington

    United States physician who first described Huntington’s chorea

    Aletta Jacobs

    Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)

    Edward Jenner

    English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)

    Harry Fitch Kleinfelter

    United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912)

    Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier

    United States physician who in 1863 founded a medical school for women (1813-1888)

    Sir Patrick Manson

    Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922)

    Friedrich Anton Mesmer

    Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)

    Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim

    Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)

    Peter Mark Roget

    English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869)

    Sir Ronald Ross

    British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)

    Benjamin Rush

    physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)

    Albert Schweitzer

    French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965)

    Anna Howard Shaw

    United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)

    Sir James Young Simpson

    Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)

    English Hippocrates

    English physician (1624-1689)

    Erik Adolf von Willebrand

    Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949)

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    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

    GP, general practitioner

    a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses

    hakeem, hakim

    a Muslim physician

    house physician, resident, resident physician

    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

    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

    quack

    an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

    medical specialist, specialist

    practices one branch of medicine

    operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon

    a physician who specializes in surgery

    vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon

    a doctor who practices veterinary medicine

    amputator

    a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb

    anaesthetist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist

    a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated

    baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrician, pediatrist

    a specialist in the care of babies

    cardiologist, heart specialist, heart surgeon

    a specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart

    chiropodist, foot doctor, podiatrist

    a specialist in care for the feet

    cosmetic surgeon, plastic surgeon

    a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face)

    country doctor

    a doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital

    dermatologist, skin doctor

    a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin

    diagnostician, pathologist

    a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis

    diplomate

    medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group

    ear doctor, ear specialist, otologist

    a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases

    embryologist

    a physician who specializes in embryology

    endocrinologist

    physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system

    ENT man, ear-nose-and-throat doctor, otolaryngologist, otorhinolaryngologist, rhinolaryngologist

    a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat

    family doctor

    a general practitioner who treats all the family members

    geriatrician, gerontologist

    a specialist in gerontology

    gynaecologist, gynecologist, woman’s doctor

    a specialist in gynecology

    haematologist, hematologist

    a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs

    horse doctor

    a veterinarian who treats horses

    hygienist

    a medical specialist in hygiene

    internist

    a specialist in internal medicine

    brain doctor, neurologist

    a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it

    brain surgeon, neurosurgeon

    someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain)

    accoucheur, obstetrician

    a physician specializing in obstetrics

    oncologist

    a specialist in oncology

    eye doctor, oculist, ophthalmologist

    a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye

    orthopaedist, orthopedist

    a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children)

    orthoptist

    a specialist in orthoptics

    proctologist

    a doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus

    head-shrinker, psychiatrist, shrink

    a physician who specializes in psychiatry

    radiographer

    a person who makes radiographs

    radiologist, radiotherapist

    a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease

    rheumatologist

    a physician specializing in rheumatic diseases

    urologist

    a specialist in urology

    type of:

    medical man, medical practitioner

    someone who practices medicine

  3. noun

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

  4. verb

    give medical treatment to

  5. verb

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

    synonyms:

    bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on

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    break, bust

    ruin completely

    break, bust, fall apart, wear, wear out

    go to pieces

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    fiddle, tinker

    try to fix or mend

    fill

    plug with a substance

    patch, piece

    repair by adding pieces

    cobble

    repair or mend

    point, repoint

    repair the joints of bricks

    trouble-shoot, troubleshoot

    solve problems

    patch, patch up

    mend by putting a patch on

    resole, sole

    put a new sole on

    revamp, vamp

    provide (a shoe) with a new vamp

    heel, reheel

    put a new heel on

    darn

    repair by sewing

    close, fill up

    fill or stop up

    type of:

    ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate

    make better

  6. verb

    alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

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Источник
doctor doctor ˈdɔktə

  1. доктор, врач

    doctor’s overall ― медицинский халат

    family doctor ― домашний врач

    ship’s doctor ― судовой (корабельный) врач

    to see a doctor ― сходить к врачу

    to send for a doctor ― послать за врачом; вызвать врача

    to call in a doctor ― вызвать врача

    who is your doctor? ― кто вас лечит?

  2. знахарь
  3. доктор (ученая степень)

    D. of Philosophy ― доктор философии

    to take one’s doctor’s degree ― получить степень доктора

  4. законник, законовед, знаток законов
  5. ученый богослов, теолог
  6. редк. ученый муж, авторитет
  7. уст. наставник, учитель
  8. pl. уст. отцы церкви (тж. Doctors of the Church)
  9. начальник; тот, кто распоряжается и предписывает

    you’re the doctor ― вы тут хозяин; придется мне подчиниться

  10. искусственная муха (для ужения)
  11. разг. прохладный ветерок
  12. австрал. повар
  13. тех. вспомогательное устройство
  14. тех. скребок
  15. тех. адаптер; переходная муфта
  16. суррогат; фальсифицированный или испорченный примесями
    продукт

  17. полигр. ракель, ракля (тж. doctor blade)
  18. разг. лечить, врачевать

    to doctor smb. (for rheumatism) ― лечить кого-л. (от ревматизма)

    to doctor oneself with tranquillizers ― лечиться
    транквилизаторами

  19. заниматься врачебной практикой
  20. лечиться; принимать лекарство
  21. (тж. doctor up) разбавлять (напитки)

    to doctor beer with water ― разбавить пиво водой

  22. фальсифицировать (продукты)
  23. подделывать

    to doctor accounts ― подделывать счета

  24. подправлять, чинить на скорую руку; ремонтировать;
    налаживать (машину)

    to doctor a cart ― починить тележку

    to doctor a photo ― вырезать (что-л.) на фотографии

  25. редк. присуждать докторскую степень
doctoral doctoral ˈdɔktərəl

    докторский

    doctoral dissertation ― докторская диссертация

    doctoral degree ― (ученая) степень доктора

    doctoral student (candidate) ― ам. докторант
doctorate doctorate ˈdɔktərɪt

  1. степень доктора
  2. докторантура; работа над докторской диссертацией
  3. редк. присуждать степень доктора
doctoress doctoress

  1. редк. женщина-врач (употр. только когда нужно подчернуть
    пол    )

  2. жена врача, докторша; дочь врача
doctorial doctorial

    докторский
Doctors' Commons Doctors’ Commons ˈdɔktəzˈkɔmənz

    ист. коллегия юристов гражданского права в Лондоне
doctorship doctorship

  1. степень доктора
  2. положение и функции доктора (наук)
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    doctor

    doctor [ˊdɒktə]

    1) врач, до́ктор

    2)

    амер.

    данти́ст; ветерина́рный врач

    4)

    разг.

    ма́стер по ремо́нту

    5) вспомога́тельный механи́зм

    6)

    мор. жарг.

    судово́й по́вар

    1) занима́ться враче́бной пра́ктикой; лечи́ть;

    2) ремонти́ровать, чини́ть на ско́рую ру́ку

    4) фальсифици́ровать ( пищу, вино)

    5) присужда́ть сте́пень до́ктора

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > doctor

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    doctor

    Персональный Сократ > doctor

  • 3
    doctor

    doctor, physician, medical man, (MD)

    English-Russian dictionary of medicine > doctor

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    doctor

    English-Russian dictionary of biology and biotechnology > doctor

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    doctor

    1. n доктор, врач

    2. n знахарь

    3. n законник, законовед, знаток законов

    4. n учёный богослов, теолог

    5. n редк. учёный муж, авторитет

    6. n уст. наставник, учитель

    7. n уст. отцы церкви

    8. n шутл. начальник; тот, кто распоряжается и предписывает

    9. n искусственная муха

    10. n разг. прохладный ветерок

    11. n австрал. повар

    12. n тех. скребок

    13. n тех. адаптер; переходная муфта

    14. n суррогат; фальсифицированный или испорченный примесями продукт

    15. n полигр. ракель, ракля

    16. v разг. лечить, врачевать

    17. v разг. заниматься врачебной практикой

    18. v разг. лечиться; принимать лекарство

    19. v разг. разбавлять

    20. v разг. фальсифицировать

    21. v разг. подделывать

    22. v разг. подправлять, чинить на скорую руку; ремонтировать; налаживать

    23. v разг. редк. присуждать докторскую степень

    Синонимический ряд:

    1. dermatologist (noun) dermatologist; gynecologist; obstetrician; ophthalmologist; pediatrician; psychiatrist; urologist

    2. doctor of medicine (noun) chiropractor; consultant; doctor of medicine; general practitioner; homeopath; M.D.; medical attendant; surgeon

    3. holder of doctoral degree (noun) degreed student; expert; holder of doctoral degree; learned person; Phd; professor; scholar; scientist; specialist

    4. physician (noun) doc; MD; medical; mediciner; medico; physician

    5. adulterate (verb) adulterate; debase; dope; dope up; falsify; load; pervert; sophisticate; weight

    6. attend (verb) administer; attend; medicate; minister to; nurse; patch up; supply professional services; treat

    7. mend (verb) do up; fix; mend; overhaul; patch; rebuild; recondition; reconstruct; repair; revamp; right; vamp

    English-Russian base dictionary > doctor

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    doctor

    врач
    имя существительное:

    глагол:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > doctor

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    doctor

    [ˈdɔktə]

    doctor врач, доктор doctor врач doctor вспомогательный механизм; Doctor Fell лицо, вызывающее невольную, необъяснимую антипатию doctor доктор (ученая степень) doctor доктор doctor заниматься врачебной практикой; лечить; to doctor oneself лечиться doctor искусственная муха (употр. для ужения) doctor подделывать (документы); фальсифицировать (пищу, вино) doctor ремонтировать, чинить на скорую руку doctor мор. жарг. судовой повар doctor фальсифицированный продукт doctor вспомогательный механизм; Doctor Fell лицо, вызывающее невольную, необъяснимую антипатию doctor заниматься врачебной практикой; лечить; to doctor oneself лечиться occupational health doctor специалист по гигиене труда panel doctor врач страхкассы works doctor заводской врач

    English-Russian short dictionary > doctor

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    doctor

    1. [ʹdɒktə]

    1. доктор, врач

    ship’s doctor — судовой /корабельный/ врач

    to send for a doctor — послать за врачом; вызвать врача

    who is your doctor — кто вас лечит?

    2. знахарь

    Doctor of Philosophy [Law, Medicine] — доктор философии [юридических наук, медицины]

    4. законник, законовед, знаток законов

    5. 1) учёный богослов, теолог

    4)

    уст. отцы церкви (

    Doctors of the Church)

    6.

    начальник; тот, кто распоряжается и предписывает

    you’re the doctor — ≅ вы тут хозяин; придётся мне подчиниться

    10.

    вспомогательное устройство

    12.

    адаптер; переходная муфта

    13. суррогат; фальсифицированный испорченный примесями продукт

    14.

    ракель, ракля (

    doctor blade)

    2. [ʹdɒktə]

    разг.

    1. 1) лечить, врачевать

    to doctor smb. (for rheumatism) — лечить кого-л. (от ревматизма)

    2) заниматься врачебной практикой

    3) лечиться; принимать лекарство

    3. подделывать

    to doctor accounts [election returns] — подделывать счета [результаты выборов]

    4. подправлять, чинить на скорую руку; ремонтировать; налаживать ()

    5.

    присуждать докторскую степень

    НБАРС > doctor

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    Doctor

    Врач
    имя существительное:

    глагол:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > Doctor

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    doctor

    ˈdɔktə
    1. сущ.
    1) доктор (ученая степень) ;
    в более узком смысле — теолог;
    законник, законовед Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) ≈ доктор философии
    2) врач, доктор, лекарь, медик;
    знахарь doctors treat (their) patients ≈ врачи лечат (своих) больных doctors see (their) patients ≈ врачи осматривают (своих) больных to see a doctor ≈ сходить ко врачу head doctor ≈ главный врач doctor in charge of the division ≈ зав. отделением family doctor witch doctor barefoot doctor Syn: physician, general practitioner, osteopath, surgeon
    3) разг. мастер по ремонту
    4) добавка( в еду или питье для придания желаемого вкуса)
    5) мор.;
    сл. судовой повар
    6) искусственная муха( употр. для ужения) ∙ Doctor Fell ≈ лицо, вызывающее необъяснимую антипатию
    2. гл.;
    разг.
    1) присуждать докторскую степень
    2) заниматься врачебной практикой
    3) ремонтировать, чинить to doctor an old clock ≈ чинить старые часы Syn: repair
    2.
    4) а) подгонять, подправлять, переделывать (чтобы добиться желаемого результата, вкуса и т. п.) They doctored the play to suit the audience. ≈ Они подправили пьесу так, чтобы она устраивала публику. This wine tastes as if it’s been doctored up. ≈ У этого вина такой вкус, что можно подумать, что в него что-то добавили. б) подправлять, подделывать He was accused of doctoring the election returns. ≈ Его обвинили в подтасовке результатов выборов.
    доктор, врач — *’s overall медицинский халат — family * домашний врач — ship’s * судовой /корабельный/ врач — to see a * сходить к врачу — to send for a * послать за врачом;
    вызвать врача — to call in a * вызвать врача — who is your *? кто вас лечит? знахарь доктор (ученая степень) — D. of Philosophy доктор философии — to take one’s *’s degree получить степень доктора законник, законовед, знаток законов ученый богослов, теолог ( редкое) ученый муж, авторитет( устаревшее) наставник, учитель pl (устаревшее) отцы церкви (тж. Doctors of the Church) начальник;
    тот, кто распоряжается и предписывает — you’re the * вы тут хозяин;
    придется мне подчиниться искусственная муха( для ужения) (разговорное) прохладный ветерок( австралийское) повар (техническое) вспомогательное устройство( техническое) скребок( техническое) адаптер;
    переходная муфта суррогат;
    фальсифицированный или испорченный примесями продукт (полиграфия) ракель, ракля (тж. * blade) (разговорное) лечить, врачевать — to * smb. (for rheumatism) лечить кого-л. (от ревматизма) — to * oneself with tranquillizers лечиться транквилизаторами заниматься врачебной практикой лечиться;
    принимать лекарство (тж. * up) разбавлять (напитки) — to * beer with water разбавить пиво водой фальсифицировать (продукты) подделывать — to * accounts подделывать счета подправлять, чинить на скорую руку;
    ремонтировать;
    налаживать( машину) — to * a cart починить тележку — to * a photo вырезать( что-л.) на фотографии (редкое) присуждать докторскую степень
    doctor врач, доктор ~ врач ~ вспомогательный механизм;
    Doctor Fell лицо, вызывающее невольную, необъяснимую антипатию ~ доктор (ученая степень) ~ доктор ~ заниматься врачебной практикой;
    лечить;
    to doctor oneself лечиться ~ искусственная муха (употр. для ужения) ~ подделывать (документы) ;
    фальсифицировать (пищу, вино) ~ ремонтировать, чинить на скорую руку ~ мор. жарг. судовой повар ~ фальсифицированный продукт
    ~ вспомогательный механизм;
    Doctor Fell лицо, вызывающее невольную, необъяснимую антипатию
    ~ заниматься врачебной практикой;
    лечить;
    to doctor oneself лечиться
    occupational health ~ специалист по гигиене труда
    panel ~ врач страхкассы
    works ~ заводской врач

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > doctor

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    doctor

    1.

    сущ.

    Syn:

    See:

    Doctor of Law [Medicine] — доктор юридических наук [медицины]

    See:

    4)

    ,

    разг.

    мастер по ремонту

    2.

    гл.

    1)

    а)

    общ.

    подделывать, подтасовывать, подгонять

    He was accused of doctoring the election returns. — Его обвинили в подтасовке результатов выборов.

    They doctored the play to suit the audience. — Они подправили пьесу так, чтобы она устраивала публику.

    2)

    мед.

    лечить, врачевать

    to doctor smb. for rheumatism — лечить кого-л. от ревматизма

    3)

    ,

    разг.

    латать, чинить, ремонтировать

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > doctor

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    doctor

    [‘dɔktə]
    1.

    сущ.

    Syn:

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — доктор философии

    Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) — доктор медицины

    4) законник, законовед

    5)

    разг.

    мастер по ремонту

    7)

    ;

    жарг.

    кок, судовой повар

    ••

    2.

    ;

    разг.

    1) лечить, врачевать

    3) ремонтировать, чинить

    Syn:

    4) подправлять, переделывать

    They doctored the play to suit the audience. — Они подправили пьесу так, чтобы она устраивала публику.

    5)

    а) фальсифицировать, подделывать

    He was accused of doctoring the election returns. — Его обвинили в подтасовке результатов выборов.

    This wine tastes as if it’s been doctored up. — У этого вина такой вкус, будто его разбавили.

    Англо-русский современный словарь > doctor

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    doctor

    [‘dɔktə]

    n

    врач, доктор

    See:

    An apple a day drives the doctor away. — Лук от семи недуг.

    — experienced doctor


    — at the doctor’s
    — see the doctor
    — send for a doctor
    — call a doctor

    USAGE:

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > doctor

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    doctor

    1. ракель

    2. удалять краску

    3. скребок; соскребать

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > doctor

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    doctor

    1. устройство устранения дефектов
    2. установочный клин
    3. регулирующая прокладка
    4. производить демеркаптанизацию (бензина плюмбитом натрия)
    5. обессеривающий раствор
    6. налаживать (аппарат, машину)
    7. механик-ремонтник

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > doctor

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    doctor

    2) скребок; шабер

    3) ракель, ракельный нож

    4) пищ. снимающий нож

    6) пищ. добавка

    •

    Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > doctor

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    doctor

    1.

    n

    1) врач м, до́ктор м

    2.

    v

    )

    1) покопа́ться

    2) подде́лать что-л.

    The Americanisms. English-Russian dictionary. > doctor

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    doctor

    Large English-Russian phrasebook > doctor

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    doctor

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > doctor

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    doctor

    Англо-русский текстильный словар > doctor

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