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doctor
  1. 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 doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, DPT, DC, Pharm.D., in the US or MBBS in the UK.
  2. 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.
  3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
  4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  5. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
  6. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
  7. A fish, the friar skate.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Do not stop the treatment without consulting your doctor.”
      “I need to bring my poor, sick dog to the doctor.”
      “Simpson was a doctor in the field of mechanical engineering who graduated from the local Institute of Technology.”
doctorandus
  1. (historical, in the Netherlands) A person who has passed an doctoral exam at a university, but has not yet attained a doctorate.
  2. (uncommon) Alternative form of doctorand
doctorand
  1. A postgraduate aiming to receive a doctorate; a Ph.D. student.
doctorate
  1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To this he added a clinical medical degree and a doctorate in neuroscience.”
doctorship
  1. Professional position or title of a doctor.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Bayle was not aware that Locke had been denied in 1666 his doctorship by the hostile Oxford authorities.”
      “If he was neither the one nor the other, indeed, his doctorship would no doubt avail him the less.”
      “Not one came, moreover, without her little pipkin of pennyroyal, sage, balm, or other herb tea, delighted at an opportunity of signalizing her kindness and her doctorship.”
doctordom
  1. The realm or sphere of doctors; doctors, collectively.
doctorishness
  1. The state or quality of being like a doctor.
doctorspeak
  1. The jargon used by doctors.
doctorling
  1. (pejorative) A minor, subordinate, or inferior doctor
doctorhood
  1. The status or period of being a doctor.
doctourship
  1. Obsolete form of doctorship.
doctress
  1. (archaic) A female doctor.
  2. Examples:
    1. “One of the annexes, as I have said, has had thoughts of becoming a doctress.”
      “Tell me, when thou wast little, didst thou know Gagaoola the witch doctress?”
      “Among her topics are female travel writers and colonial knowledge, fashioning and marketing the doctress of empire, and female medical education in India.”
doctoress
  1. (archaic) A female doctor.
  2. Examples:
    1. “On that day, a doctoress who was following and observing them, during the apparition desired to touch Our Lady.”
      “Besides, an old Isanusi or witch doctoress up in the Manica country told me all about it.”
doctour
  1. Obsolete form of doctor.
doctorer
  1. One who doctors.
doctoring
doctorandi
  1. plural of doctorandus
doctorlings
  1. plural of doctorling
doctorships
  1. plural of doctorship
doctorates
  1. plural of doctorate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Under the headship of the neo-behaviorist Kenneth W. Spence, it led America in the production of psychology doctorates for many years.”
      “Most of them possessed master's degrees, and a few had earned their doctorates.”
      “The number of researchers has doubled, and a larger proportion now have master's degrees and doctorates.”
doctorings
doctoresses
  1. plural of doctoress
doctorers
  1. plural of doctorer
doctresses
  1. plural of doctress
doctours
  1. plural of doctour
doctors
doctorands
  1. plural of doctorands
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