Definitions for doctor
ˈdɒk tərdoc·tor

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

1. doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., mediconoun

   a licensed medical practitioner

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

2. Doctor of the Church, Doctornoun

   (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. doctornoun

   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 upverb

   alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

   "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

6. doctorverb

   give medical treatment to

7. repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch onverb

   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. doctornoun

   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. doctornoun

   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. doctornoun

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

4. doctornoun

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

5. doctorverb

   To act as a medical doctor to.

   Her children doctored her back to health.

6. doctorverb

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

7. doctorverb

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

8. doctorverb

   To genetically alter an extant species.

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

9. doctorverb

   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. Doctornoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. DOCTORnoun

   Etymology: doctor, Latin.

   1. One that has taken the highest degree in the faculties of divinity, law, or physick. In some universities they have doctors of musick. In its original import it means a man so well versed in his faculty, as to be qualified to teach it.

   No woman had it, but a civil doctor,
   Who did refuse three thousand ducats of me,
   And begg’d the ring. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   Then stood there up one in the council, a pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of laws. Acts v. 34.

   2. A man skilled in any profession.

   Then subtle doctors scriptures made their pride,
   Casuists, like cocks, struck out each other’s eyes. John Denham.

   Each proselyte would vote his doctor best,
   With absolute exclusion to the rest. John Dryden, Hind and Panth.

   3. A physician; one who undertakes the cure of diseases.

   By med’cine life may be prolong’d, yet death
   Will seize the doctor too. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   How does your patient, doctor?
   —— Not so sick, my lord,
   As she is troubl’d with thick coming fancies. William Shakespeare, Macb.

   Children will not take those medicines from the doctor’s hand, which they will from a nurse or mother. Gov. of Tongue.

   To ’pothecaries let the learn’d prescribe,
   That men may die without a double bribe:
   Let them, but under their superiors, kill,
   When doctors first have sign’d the bloody bill. Dryden.

   He that can cure by recreation, and make pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor at it in good earnest. Collier.

   In truth, nine parts in ten of those who recovered, owed their lives to the strength of nature and a good constitution, while such a one happened to be the doctor. Jonathan Swift.

   4. Any able or learned man.

   The simplest person, that can but apprehend and speak sense, is as much judge of it as the greatest doctor in the school. Kenelm Digby, of Bodies.

2. To Doctorverb

   To physick; to cure; to treat with medicines. A low word.

   Etymology: from the noun.

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

1. Doctornoun

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

2. Doctornoun

   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. Doctornoun

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

4. Doctornoun

   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. Doctornoun

   the friar skate

6. Doctorverb

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

7. Doctorverb

   to confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor

8. Doctorverb

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

9. Doctorverb

   to practice physic

10. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Roman Catholic Church
   • Adulterate
   • Child's Play
   • Improve
   • Medicine
   • Theologian
   • Treat

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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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. Jwalant Gurung:

   I assured Maya's father that I would take care of her, i told them I had a friend who was a doctor.

2. Aaron Young:

   Pay attention to who you allow to have your children’s identifying information, why does the doctor need that? Why does the school need that?

3. Eduard Rusu:

   I've heard some parents in Portland went to the doctor to get vaccinated, and their kids got 16 shots at a time. And they think that's too much.

4. David Newman:

   As alleged in this indictment, four young women who came to the hospital for medical treatment were sexually abused by the very doctor entrusted with their care.

5. Pradeep Kumar:

   One is actually afraid to go and see a doctor, we might catch infection from the hospital. That is a big problem.

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