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Meaning of 'doctor' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Doctor [ n.]
- A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
- 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.
- One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
- 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.
- The friar skate.
2 . Doctor [ v. i.]
- To practice physic.
3 . Doctor [ v. t.]
- To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
- To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
- To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

Meaning of 'doctor' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . doctor [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a licensed medical practitioner
Example in sentence:
  • I felt so bad I went to see my doctor
Meaning (2):
- a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
Example in sentence:
  • she is a doctor of philosophy in physics
Meaning (3):
- children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
Example in sentence:
  • the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor
Meaning (4):
- (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching
Example in sentence:
  • the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages
5 . doctor [ v]
Meaning (5):
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
Example in sentence:
  • Repair my shoes please;
  • She repaired her TV set
Meaning (6):
- alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
Example in sentence:
  • Sophisticate rose water with geraniol

Nearby Words:

docent docetae docetic docetism dochmiac dochmius docibility docible docibleness docile

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