Definitions for doctor
ˈdɒk tərdoc·tor

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico(noun)

   a licensed medical practitioner

   "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"

2. Doctor of the Church, Doctor(noun)

   (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. doctor(noun)

   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. doctor, Dr.(verb)

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

   "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

5. sophisticate, doctor, doctor up(verb)

   alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

   "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

6. doctor(verb)

   give medical treatment to

7. repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on(verb)

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

   "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. doctor(Noun)

   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.

2. doctor(Noun)

   A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The final examination and qualification may award a doctorate in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, DDS, DPT, DC, in the US or MBBS in the UK.

   If you still feel unwell tomorrow, go see your doctor.

3. doctor(Noun)

   A veterinarian; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick.

4. doctor(Noun)

   A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.

5. doctor(Verb)

   To act as a medical doctor to.

   Her children doctored her back to health.

6. doctor(Verb)

   To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor.

7. doctor(Verb)

   To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

8. doctor(Verb)

   To genetically alter an extant species.

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

9. doctor(Verb)

   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.

10. Doctor(Noun)

    The title of a doctor (whether medical or academic) used before the doctor's name. Abbreviation: Dr, Dr.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Doctor(noun)

   a teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

2. Doctor(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

3. Doctor(noun)

   one duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

4. Doctor(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

5. Doctor(noun)

   the friar skate

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

6. Doctor(verb)

   to treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

7. Doctor(verb)

   to confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

8. Doctor(verb)

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

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

9. Doctor(verb)

   to practice physic

   Etymology: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Doctor

   The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I, is a fictional character from the television series Star Trek: Voyager, played by actor Robert Picardo. The character also appeared in the now-closed Star Trek: The Experience Borg 4-D Adventure at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Doctor

   dok′tur, n. one who has received from a university the highest degree in a faculty: a physician: a medical practitioner: a cleric especially skilled in theology or ecclesiastical law.—v.t. to treat as a doctor does: to adulterate: to make alterations on: to falsify: to address as doctor: to create a doctor.—v.i. to take physic: to practise medicine.—adj. Doc′toral.—ns. Doc′torate, Doc′torship; Doc′toress, Doc′tress, a female physician.—Doctors' Commons, before the establishment of the Divorce Court and Probate Court in 1857, the college of the doctors of civil law in London, incorporated by royal charter in 1768; Doctor's stuff, medicine. [L., 'a teacher'—docere, to teach.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. doctor

   A name which seamen apply to every medical officer. Also, a jocular name for the ship's cook.

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1. doctor

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Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Doctor

   There are three kinds of Doctors--of Law, Physic, and Divinity. The first and the last are essentially University degrees, with which the vulgar orders of the people have little or no acquaintance. They know only of one “Doctor,” the medical practitioner, and since he wears a frock coat and a silk hat he is entitled to all the respect that they can pay him.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'doctor' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1018

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'doctor' in Written Corpus Frequency: #782

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'doctor' in Nouns Frequency: #269

How to pronounce doctor?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of doctor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of doctor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of doctor in a Sentence

1. Vicki Lawrence:

   I’m happy that this new website [CIUandYou.com] can give them tools to find out how to live with CIU— and to know how to get to the right doctor.

2. Frank Lloyd Wright:

   A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

3. Jeon Min-su:

   It's rather simple with physical violence, as the victim can go see a doctor, but with cyber violence, there is no cure.

4. Tim McCarthy:

   People pulled the partitions off of the child and a doctor and nurse came over right after, everything that could have been done was done under the circumstances.

5. Patricia Nguyen:

   As a patient, you should ask if you really need the scan. If the doctor says it will help, of course get it; the disease you have is best served by a scan to find out the diagnosis, what to do, and how to manage the disease, these are useful tests.

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