Definitions for doctors

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doctors doc·tor

Spelling: [dok-ter]

IPA: /ˈdɒk tər/

Doctors is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in doctors (cdoorst).

Definitions for doctors

noun

1. a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
2. a person who has been awarded a doctor's degree:
3. Doctor of the Church.
4. Older Slang. a cook, as at a camp or on a ship.
5. Machinery. any of various minor mechanical devices, especially one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process.
6. Angling. any of several artificial flies, especially the silver doctor.
7. an eminent scholar and teacher.

verb (used with object)

1. to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to:
2. to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to:
3. to restore to original or working condition; repair; mend:
4. to tamper with; falsify:
5. to add a foreign substance to; adulterate:
6. to revise, alter, or adapt (a photograph, manuscript, etc.) in order to serve a specific purpose or to improve the material:
7. to award a doctorate to:

verb (used without object)

1. to practice medicine.
2. Older Use. to take medicine; receive medical treatment.
3. Metallurgy. (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly.

Origin of doctors

1275-1325; Middle English docto(u)r (Anglo-French) Latin, equivalent to doc(ēre) to teach + -tor -tor

Examples for doctors

Not long after I was finally diagnosed, my doctor ordered a bone density scan.

That is a fact recorded by the doctor in charge of the ambulance at the inquest.

This explosion of the doctor's meant that he invited and awaited some contradiction.

I can get along for a few hours, and then I'll have a doctor look at it.

My doctor says I must let it be for at least two months, and I mean to stick by him.

My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.

The doctor there speaks of 'our steel pens,' as if they were not at all uncommon.

I have the doctor von Herzlich been ge-speaking with—come, come!

After what seemed a desperate eternity, a doctor shook his head.

My doctor put me on oral contraceptives to induce a period, figuring it would help build bone.