'Doctor' definitions:

Definition of 'doctor'

(from WordNet)
noun
A licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" [syn: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico]
noun
(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" [syn: Doctor of the Church, Doctor]
noun
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"
noun
A person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics" [syn: doctor, Dr.]
verb
Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: sophisticate, doctor, doctor up]
verb
Give medical treatment to
verb
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" [syn: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on] [ant: break, bust]

Definition of 'Doctor'

From: GCIDE
  • Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doctored; p. pr. & vb. n. Doctoring.]
  • 1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Doctor'

From: GCIDE
  • Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. i. To practice physic. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'doctor'

From: GCIDE
  • doctor \doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]
  • 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An academical title, originally meaning a man 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. [1913 Webster]
  • By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
  • Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot.
  • Doctor fish (Zool.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'doctor'

From: GCIDE
  • Dr \Dr.\ n. abbreviation for doctor, a title accorded to a person who holds a doctorate degree from an academic institution, such as a Ph.D. degree or M.D. degree. [abbrev.]
  • Syn: doctor. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 2. a licensed doctor of medicine.
  • Syn: doctor, doc, physician, MD, medico. [WordNet 1.5]

Definition of 'doctor'

From: GCIDE
  • Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[`e]re brother, friar, fr. L. frater brother. See Brother.]
  • 1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. {(b) Augustines}. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. {(d) White Friars or Carmelites.} See these names in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Zool.) An American fish; the silversides. [1913 Webster]
  • Friar bird (Zool.), an Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus corniculatus}), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; {poor soldier}, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus.
  • Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. --Brande & C.
  • Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood.
  • Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
  • Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. --Milton.
  • Friar skate (Zool.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, {border ray}, scad, and doctor. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'doctor'

From: Easton
  • Doctor (Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them questions. They assumed the office without any appointment to it. The doctors of the law were principally of the sect of the Pharisees. Schools were established after the destruction of Jerusalem at Babylon and Tiberias, in which academical degrees were conferred on those who passed a certain examination. Those of the school of Tiberias were called by the title "rabbi," and those of Babylon by that of "master."

Synonyms of 'doctor'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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