doctor
a licensed medical practitioner
How often you will meet it
Rank 492 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 41,701 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.020% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a licensed medical practitioner also: doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico I felt so bad I went to see my doctor
- (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching also: Doctor of the Church the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages
- 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
- a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution also: Dr. she is a doctor of philosophy in physics
verb
- alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive also: sophisticate, doctor up Sophisticate rose water with geraniol
- give medical treatment to
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken also: repair, mend, fix, bushel, furbish up, restore She repaired her TV setRepair my shoes please
doctor in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The doctor looked him up and down.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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A beast of a doctor prescribed the Hill.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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Then the doctor came to him and mentioned the matter of funeral arrangements.
The Valley of the Giants · Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne · Chapter 1
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The great barriers moulted not more feathers, than he hath shed hairs, by the confession of his doctor.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Successful in all his examinations and disputations, he received the degree of Doctor of Law at Nuremberg in 1676.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1