Results for doctor

Definitions of doctor:

part of speech: verb transitive

Colloquially, to treat medically; slang, tamper with or give a false appearance to.

part of speech: adjective

DOCTORAL.

part of speech: noun

One holding the highest degree conferred by a university; a medical practitioner.

part of speech: noun

Shortened into Dr; the highest degree conferred by a university in divinity, law, medicine, music, or science; one who practises medicine; a physician; a learned man.

part of speech: verb

Colloquially, to apply medicine for the cure of diseases; to adulterate; doctor's commons, the place where the doctors of the civil law used to live and eat in common- now, the official residences and offices of the judges of various courts, as the Court of Arches, the Admiralty, & c.

part of speech: noun

One who has received from a university the highest degree in a faculty: a physician.