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Synonyms for doctor
ˈdɒk tərdoc·tor
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Wiktionary
doctornoun
Synonyms:
medic, veterinary surgeon, general practitioner, family doctor, doc, veterinarian, sawbones, GP, veterinary, surgeon, physician, vetdoctornoun
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.
Her children doctored her back to health.
Synonyms:
family doctor, physician, GP, veterinarian, medic, veterinary, surgeon, sawbones, veterinary surgeon, doc, vet, general practitionerdoctornoun
To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor.
If you still feel unwell tomorrow, go see your doctor.
Synonyms:
sawbones, vet, veterinary surgeon, doc, veterinarian, GP, veterinary, medic, surgeon, general practitioner, family doctor, physiciandoctornoun
To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
Synonyms:
vet, veterinary, sawbones, veterinarian, medic, physician, doc, veterinary surgeon, general practitioner, GP, surgeon, family doctordoctorverb
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
Synonyms:
medic, doc, veterinary, sawbones, GP, veterinary surgeon, vet, general practitioner, family doctor, physician, surgeon, veterinarian
Princeton's WordNet
doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., mediconoun
a licensed medical practitioner
"I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"
Synonyms:
doc, medico, physician, mendelevium, medical student, atomic number 101Doctor of the Church, Doctornoun
(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"
doctornoun
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"
doctor, Dr.verb
a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
"she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"
sophisticate, doctor, doctor upverb
alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
"Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
Synonyms:
pervert, fix, furbish up, twist around, restore, twist, convolute, repair, mend, bushel, sophisticate, doctor up, touch ondoctorverb
give medical treatment to
Synonyms:
repair, furbish up, bushel, restore, touch on, mend, fix, sophisticate, doctor uprepair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch onverb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
Synonyms:
touch, furbish up, cook, desexualise, sterilize, ready, concern, prepare, get, set up, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, secure, pertain, sterilise, gear up, impact, mend, regenerate, vivify, amend, situate, have-to doe with, heal, make, fasten, determine, renovate, bushel, desexualize, reestablish, define, specify, rejuvenate, reconstruct, sophisticate, quicken, refer, desex, affect, unsex, fixate, resort, restore, relate, rectify, touch on, recreate, deposit, remedy, repair, pay back, doctor up, posit, bear on, bear upon, come to, animate, reanimate, limit, revive, restitute, set, fix, pay off, reinstate, indemnify
Dictionary of English Synonymes
doctornoun
Synonyms:
instructor, teacherdoctornoun
Synonyms:
adept, savant, learned mandoctornoun
Synonyms:
physician, medical practitioner
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
doctornoun
Synonyms:
physician, medical practitioner, leech, homeopath, allopath, interne, externe, savant, (ignorant) quack, empiricdoctorverb
Synonyms:
repair, treat, (Slang) tamper with, falsify, adulterate
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#77 | get | |
#132 | make | |
#189 | set | |
#501 | medical | |
#1292 | ready | |
#1300 | secure | |
#1336 | impact | |
#1666 | repair | |
#1776 | dr | |
#1864 | resort | |
#1914 | determine | |
#2034 | doctor | |
#2110 | limit | |
#2192 | touch | |
#2233 | define | |
#2464 | fix | |
#2660 | doc | |
#2884 | refer | |
#3115 | concern | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3140 | affect | |
#3552 | prepare | |
#3695 | physician | |
#3816 | deposit | |
#3823 | specify | |
#3951 | doctors | |
#4885 | physicians | |
#5516 | phd | |
#5701 | restore | |
#5862 | gp | |
#6843 | relate | |
#7202 | veterinary | |
#7436 | amend | |
#7835 | twist | |
#8193 | remedy | |
#9561 | practitioner | |
#9631 | surgeon | |
#10096 | vet | |
#11997 | heal | |
#15260 | compensate | |
#17590 | doctorate | |
#20124 | veterinarian | |
#20190 | quicken | |
#23117 | revive | |
#24417 | indemnify | |
#24590 | medic | |
#26041 | recreate | |
#26982 | animate | |
#27042 | pertain | |
#27163 | reconstruct | |
#31890 | rectify | |
#32860 | regenerate | |
#33156 | mend | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#36089 | renovate | |
#36307 | fasten | |
#37650 | reinstate | |
#47016 | bushel | |
#48305 | rejuvenate | |
#52039 | medico | |
#53925 | posit | |
#61044 | reestablish | |
#61208 | recompense | |
#64553 | situate | |
#77581 | doktor | |
#77777 | remediate | |
#84790 | sterilize | |
#104254 | docteur | |
#112569 | sophisticate | |
#145295 | fixate | |
#233953 | convolute | |
#237561 | sterilise | |
#247030 | reanimate |
How to use doctor in a sentence?
Hundreds of thousands of pregnant people will be forced to travel out of state to seek the care they need. Many people will not even know they are pregnant by six weeks, and for those who do, it is unlikely they will be able to schedule the legally required two in-person doctor’s appointments before six weeks of pregnancy.
It’s not about cutting out or replacing the doctor, it’s the exact opposite. We want to enable doctors and nurses to be more involved.
Often, if they had taken steps when they started having soreness along the patella tendon or Achilles tendon, such as taking a few days off or seeing a doctor or physical therapist, they could have limited the issue before became a much larger and more challenging problem.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
There is a recognition of those who are on the frontline, they are they in places where there is no doctor, no school, where women have to walk the last mile to the water point, often paved with danger.
Translations for doctor
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- dokter, doktorAfrikaans
- dɔkotaAkan
- طبيبة, دُكْتور, طَبيبArabic
- həkim, doktorAzerbaijani
- ле́карка, ура́ч, ўрач, до́ктар, ле́карBelarusian
- лекувам, доктор, лекарBulgarian
- ডাক্তারBengali
- metge, metgessaCatalan, Valencian
- лорChechen
- doktor, falzifikovat, lékařCzech
- meddyg, meddygesWelsh
- doktorere, doktor, læge, forfalskeDanish
- Doktorin, Ärztin, Doktor, Mediziner, Arzt, doktorieren, MedizinerinGerman
- ɖɔkta, atikewɔlaEwe
- ιατρός, διδάκτορας, γιατρόςGreek
- doktoro, virdoktoro, virkuracisto, kuracistino, kuracisto, doktorinoEsperanto
- doctora, médico, doctor, médicaSpanish
- arst, doktorEstonian
- osagile, sendagileBasque
- پزشک, دکتر, طبیبPersian
- tohtori, lääkäri, tohtoroidaFinnish
- docteur, médecinFrench
- dochtúirIrish
- ollamh, lèigh, dotair, lighicheScottish Gaelic
- doutor, médicoGalician
- דוקטור, רופא, רופאהHebrew
- डाक्टर, डॉक्टर, चिकित्सकHindi
- doktor, orvosnő, orvos, doktornőHungarian
- բժիշկ, դոկտորArmenian
- doktor, dokterIndonesian
- doktoroIdo
- læknir, doktorIcelandic
- adulterare, falsificare, dottore, dottoressa, Dottor, medico, curare, medicare, addottorareItalian
- 博士, 医者, -先生, 医師Japanese
- დოქტორი, ექიმიGeorgian
- dagitariKikuyu, Gikuyu
- дәрігерKazakh
- nakorsaqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ពេទ្យ, គ្រូពេទ្យ, មើល, បណ្ឌិត, បរិញ្ញឯកKhmer
- 醫師, 의사Korean
- дарыгерKyrgyz
- medica, medicusLatin
- ແພດ, ທ່ານໝໍ, ຫມໍLao
- daktaras, gydytojas, daktarėLithuanian
- doktore, ārsts, ārste, doktorsLatvian
- tākuta, rataMāori
- лекарка, доктор, докторка, лекарMacedonian
- эмчMongolian
- doktorMalay
- tabib, tabiba, dottor, dottoressaMaltese
- ဆရာဝန်Burmese
- valsificeren, dokter, dokteren, doctor, artsDutch
- legeNorwegian
- azeeʼííłʼíníNavajo, Navaho
- mètgeOccitan
- medyk, doktor, lekarz, lekarkaPolish
- doutor, doutora, médicoPortuguese
- mediRomansh
- doctor, medic, doctorițăRomanian
- до́ктор, врач, ле́карь, ме́дикRussian
- datori, medicuSardinian
- здравник, љекар, liječnica, лечник, лекарка, лијечник, vračitelj, dȍktorica, лечница, vračiteljica, liječnik, lekarka, врачитељица, zdravnik, lečnica, zdravnica, ljekarka, здравница, dȍktor, lekar, lečnik, љекарка, ljekar, лијечница, врачитељ, лекарSerbo-Croatian
- දොස්තරSinhala, Sinhalese
- doktor, lekárSlovak
- zdravnik, doktorica, zdravnica, doktorSlovene
- mjekAlbanian
- ngakaSouthern Sotho
- fiffla med, läkare, manipulera, doktorSwedish
- dokta, daktariSwahili
- மருத்துவர்Tamil
- వైద్యుడుTelugu
- табиб, пизишк, докторTajik
- เวช, แพทย์, ปริญญาเอก, ดุษฎีบัณฑิต, หมอThai
- ዶክተርTigrinya
- врач, wraç, hekimTurkmen
- doktorTagalog
- ngakaTswana
- doktor, hekim, tabipTurkish
- доктор, табибTatar
- تېۋىپ, دوختۇر, دوكتورUyghur, Uighur
- лі́кар, до́кторUkrainian
- ڈاکٹرUrdu
- shifokor, doktor, tabibUzbek
- tiến sĩ, bác sĩ y khoa, bác sĩVietnamese
- hisanan, medinel, sanan, dokan, hidokan, jisanan, jidokan, sanel, dokelVolapük
- medcén, méde, docteur, doctoresseWalloon
- דאָקטאָר, דאָקטערYiddish
- 医生Chinese
- udokotela, umelaphi, inyanga, ugedlaZulu
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