Definition of doctor

"doctor" in the noun sense

1. doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico

a licensed medical practitioner

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

2. Doctor of the Church, Doctor

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"

3. doctor

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"

4. doctor, Dr.

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

"she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

"doctor" in the verb sense

1. sophisticate, doctor, doctor up

alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

"Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

2. doctor

give medical treatment to

3. repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on

restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

"She repaired her TV set"

"Repair my shoes please"

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Quotations for doctor

After death, the doctor. [ Proverb ]

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. [ Tom Brown ]

An ape is never so like an ape,
As when he wears a doctor's cap. [ Proverb ]

No good doctor ever takes physic. [ Italian Proverb ]

Time is generally the best doctor. [ Ovid ]

Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. [ Longfellow ]

Among the people Scoggin's a doctor. [ Proverb ]

Experience is the grand spiritual doctor. [ Carlyle ]

God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee. [ German Proverb ]

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. [ William Shakespeare ]

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

The doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-fish. [ G. D. Prentice ]

The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

That patient is not like to recover who makes the doctor his heir. [ Proverb ]

A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. [ Zimmermann ]

Guy Patin recommends to a patient to have no doctor but a horse, and no apothecary but an ass! [ Chesterfield ]

They have no other doctor but sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never sends them to the apothecary. [ South ]

I think you might dispense with half your doctors, if you would only consult Doctor Sun more, and be more under the treatment of these great hydropathic doctors, the clouds! [ Beecher ]

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician - I should like to be also something of a man. [ Theodore Parker ]

An inoffensive pleasantness is a good quality to improve friendship. It enlivens conversation, relieves melancholy, and conveys advice with better success than naked reprehension. This gilding the pill reconciles the palate to the prescription, without weakening the force of the ingredients, and he who can cure by recreation, and make pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor in good earnest. [ R. Hall ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

doctor in Scrabble®

The word doctor is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters doctor:

DOCTOR
(36)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word doctor

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In doctor

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doctor in Words With Friends™

The word doctor is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters doctor:

DOCTOR
(66)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word doctor

DOCTOR
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In doctor

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(66)
DOCTOR
(54)
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(48)
COOT
(45)
DOCTOR
(42)
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(42)
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Words within the letters of doctor

2 letter words in doctor (3 words)

3 letter words in doctor (7 words)

4 letter words in doctor (9 words)

6 letter words in doctor (1 word)

doctor + 1 blank (1 word)

Word Growth involving doctor

Shorter words in doctor

do

to octo

or

Longer words containing doctor

doctoral nondoctoral

doctoral postdoctoral

doctorate doctorates

doctorate postdoctorate

doctored undoctored

doctoress doctoresses

doctorfish doctorfishes

doctoring

doctorless

doctorlike

doctorly

doctors doctorship doctorships

doctors nondoctors

doctors witchdoctors

nondoctor nondoctoral

nondoctor nondoctors

witchdoctor witchdoctors