noun, phrase, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
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"If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor."
"The students asked to see Doctor Jones."
"So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries."
"the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter"
"[…] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]"
"Her children doctored her back to health."
"2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you're a doctor now. Good luck. Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don't know how to doctor!"
"They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick."
"Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored."
"To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery."
"SER is used to classify or identify attributes like, description, occupation, characteristic, time, origin or relationship. The acronym D-O-C-T-O-R could be helpful to remember it."
"It is necessary for you to see a doctor at once."
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.
Common synonyms include: physician, abecedarian, abet, admixture, adulterate, aid.
It is necessary for you to see a doctor at once.
Pronounced /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/.
From Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“to teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”).
A backronym from the word doctor.