Meaning of doctor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK.
2. The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name
3. The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.
4. 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.
5. To practice medicine.
6. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
7. A person who has been awarded the highest academic degree in a particular subject by a college or university.
8. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
9. (often abbreviated to Dr when written in titles).
   often abbreviated to
10. A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
    obsolete
11. the degree of Doctor. doktoraat, doktorsgraad دَرَجَة ``دكتوراه'' докторат doutoramento doktorát das Doktorat doktorgrad διδακτορικόdoctorado doktorikraad درجه دکتری؛ دکترا tohtorinarvo doctorat דוֹקטוֹרָט डाक्टरेट doktorat doktorátus doktoral doktorsgráða dottorato di ricerca 博士号 박사 학위 daktaro laipsnis doktora grāds kedoktotan doctoraatdoktorgraddoktorat دوکتورا doutoramento doctorat докторская степень doktorát doktorat doktorat doktorsgrad ปริญญาเอก doktora 博士學位 докторський ступінь کسی علمی...
12. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
    dated
13. doctor-a, médico-a; pop. doctor-a,___'s discretion → al criterio del ___; según opinión facultativa;
14. A fish, the friar skate.
15. A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine or a school of osteopathic medicine; a physician.
16. A ship's cook.
    obsolete, slang
17. A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.
18. A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
19. Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.
20. Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.
    Roman Catholic Church

Equivalents

Examples

“If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.”

“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.”

“So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.”

“one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel”

“the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter”

“the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"”

“The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.”

“[…] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]”

“His galley is small, and, microscopic as it is, it is shared by his brother in misery, the ship's cook, he whom the crew familiarly know as the “Doctor.””

“The students asked to see Doctor Jones.”

“Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.”

“Well, Doctor, what do you think? Will he live?”

“They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.”

CEFR level