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The correct spelling is doctor.
How to pronounce doctor
/ˈdɒktə/
nounIPA: /ˈdɒktə/
Say it like: Doc-tor
The correct spelling is doctor. 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 i… For example: "If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor."
Usage Examples
“If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.”
“the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter”
“Her children doctored her back to health.”
Meanings
noun
- 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 D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, 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 non-human animals.
- 4.A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
- 5.A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
verb
- 1.To act as a medical doctor to.
- 2.To act as a medical doctor.
- 3.To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- 4.To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
- 5.To genetically alter an extant species.
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