Definitions of doctor [ˈdɒk tər]

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Definition of 'doctor'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) doctor
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.

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

3.  doctor
any of several artificial angling flies.

4.  doctor
an eminent scholar and teacher.

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

6. (v.t.) doctor
to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to.

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

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

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

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

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

12. (v.i.) doctor
to practice medicine.

Etymology: (1670–80; < ML doctorātus. See doctor , -ate³)

Definition of 'doctor'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico
a licensed medical practitioner
"I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"

2. (noun) Doctor of the Church, 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"

3. (noun) 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"

4. (verb) doctor, Dr.
a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
"she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

5. (verb) sophisticate, doctor, doctor up
alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
"Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

6. (verb) doctor
give medical treatment to

7. (verb) repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"

Definition of 'doctor'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) doctor
sb who treats ill or injured people
to consult a doctor; I have to make a doctor's appointment.

2. doctor
sb who has the highest qualification from a university
a doctor of physics

3. (verb) doctor
to alter sth dishonestly
The newspaper has admitted doctoring the photo.

Definition of 'doctor'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) doctor
a teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man

2. (noun) doctor
an academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only

3. (noun) doctor
one duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician

4. (noun) doctor
any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine

5. (noun) doctor
the friar skate

6. (verb) doctor
to treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart

7. (verb) doctor
to confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor

8. (verb) doctor
to tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky

9. (verb) doctor
to practice physic

Definitions of 'doctor'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. doctor
a title implying that the possessor of it is such a master of his art that he can teach it as well as practise it.

Definitions of 'doctor'

The Roycroft Dictionary

doctor
1. A person who has taken seriously the biblical injunction, "Physician, heel thyself!"

2. In Germany, a swashbuckler person with many scars, much admired by small boys and unhappily married ladies, and feared by shopkeepers.

Translation of 'doctor'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: 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.
Afrikaans: dokter	Arabic: طَبيب	Bulgarian: лекар
Brazilian: médico	Czech: doktor, lékař	German: der Doktor
Danish: læge; doktor	Greek: γιατρός	Spanish: médico
Estonian: arst, doktor	Farsi: دکتر	Finnish: lääkäri
French: docteur/-eure	Hebrew: רוֹפֵא	Hindi: डाक्टर, वैद्य, चिकित्सक
Croatian: liječnik	Hungarian: doktor, orvos	Indonesian: dokter
Icelandic: læknir	Italian: dottore, medico	Japanese: 医師
Korean: 의사	Lithuanian: daktaras, gydytojas	Latvian: ārsts
Malay: tabib	Dutch: dokter	Norwegian: lege, doktor
Polish: lekarz, doktor	Persian: دکتر	Pashto: ډاكتر، طبيب
Portuguese: médico	Romanian: doctor, medic	Russian: доктор; врач
Slovak: lekár, -ka	Slovenian: zdravnik	Serbian: doktor
Swedish: läkare, doktor	Thai: แพทย์	Turkish: doktor, hekim
Taiwanese: 醫生	Ukrainian: лікар	Urdu: سند یافتہ طبیب
Vietnamese: bác sỹ	Chinese: 医生
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