Word

doctor, n.
(doctors)
freq. cnt. 74

a licensed medical practitioner
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 80 freq. cnt.: 73 freq. cnt.: 7

Dr. MD doc doctor medico physician

sample sentences

"I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

doctorial doctor

semantic pointers

hyponym

abortionist allergist angiologist extern, medical extern gastroenterologist general practitioner, GP hakim, hakeem house physician, resident, resident physician interne, medical intern, intern, houseman primary care physician quack specialist, medical specialist surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon

hypernym

medical man, medical practitioner

member holonym

doctor-patient relation

instance hyponym

Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd Avicenna, ibn-Sina, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina Barany, Robert Barany Bartholin, Caspar Bartholin Bruce, David Bruce, Sir David Bruce Crohn, Burrill Bernard Crohn Down, John L. H. Down Eijkman, Christiaan Eijkman Fallot, Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot Gilbert, William Gilbert Harvey, William Harvey Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin Huntington, George Huntington Jacobs, Aletta Jacobs Jenner, Edward Jenner Klinefelter, Harry F. Klinefelter, Harry Fitch Kleinfelter Lozier, Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier Manson, Sir Patrick Manson Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer, Friedrich Anton Mesmer Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim Roget, Peter Mark Roget Ross, Sir Ronald Ross Rush, Benjamin Rush Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer Shaw, Anna Howard Shaw Simpson, Sir James Young Simpson Sydenham, Thomas Sydenham, English Hippocrates Willebrand, von Willebrand, E. A. von Willebrand, Erik von Willebrand, Erik Adolf von Willebrand

children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

doctor

sample sentences

"the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"

semantic pointers

hypernym

play, child's play

a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
<noun.person>

Dr. doctor

sample sentences

"she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

doctorial doctoral

semantic pointers

hypernym

student, scholar, scholarly person, bookman