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Definitions for Doctor

[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: He is a Doctor of Philosophy.
[3] Doctor of the Church.
[4] Older Slang . a cook, as at a camp or on a ship.
[5] Machinery . any of various minor mechanical devices, especially one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process.
[6] Angling . any of several artificial flies, especially the silver doctor.
[7] an eminent scholar and teacher.
[8] to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to: He feels he can doctor himself for just a common cold.
[9] to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to: He doctored his cold at home.
[10] to restore to original or working condition; repair; mend: She was able to doctor the chipped vase with a little plastic cement.
[11] to tamper with; falsify: He doctored the birthdate on his passport.
[12] to add a foreign substance to; adulterate: Someone had doctored the drink.
[13] 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.
[14] to award a doctorate to: He did his undergraduate work in the U.S. and was doctored at Oxford.
[15] to practice medicine.
[16] Older Use . to take medicine; receive medical treatment.
[17] Metallurgy . (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly.
[18] a person licensed to practise medicine
[19] a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge
[20] mainly US and Canadian a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine
[21] 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
[22] angling any of various gaudy artificial flies
[23] informal a person who mends or repairs things
[24] slang a cook on a ship or at a camp
[25] archaic a man, esp a teacher, of learning
[26] 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
[27] (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
[28] a cool sea breeze blowing in some countries the Cape doctor
[29] go for the doctor Australian slang to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race
[30] what the doctor ordered something needed or desired
[31] (tr) to give medical treatment to to prescribe for (a disease or disorder)
[32] (intr) informal to practise medicine he doctored in Easter Island for six years
[33] (tr) to repair or mend, esp in a makeshift manner
[34] (tr) to make different in order to deceive, tamper with, falsify, or adulterate
[35] (tr) to adapt for a desired end, effect, etc
[36] (tr) to castrate (a cat, dog, etc)

Words related to Doctor

physician, expert, specialist, professor, scientist, surgeon, reconstruct, medicate, revamp, alter, misrepresent, fudge, falsify, quack, medic, intern, healer, MD, medico, doc

Words nearby Doctor

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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

Words that may be confused with Doctor

doctor, physician

Other words from Doctor

doc·tor·al , doc·to·ri·al [dok-tawr -ee-uh  l, -tohr -] /dɒkˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-/ , adjective
doc·tor·al·ly , doc·to·ri·al·ly , adverb
doc·tor·less , adjective
doc·tor·ship , noun
sub·doc·tor , noun
su·per·doc·tor , noun
un·der·doc·tor , noun
un·doc·tored , adjective

Word origin for Doctor

C14: from Latin: teacher, from docēre to teach

Synonyms for Doctor

expert, physician, professor, scientist, specialist, surgeon, MD, bones, doc, healer, intern, medic, medico, quack, general practitioner, medical person