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English
Pronunciation
Noun
Doctor (plural Doctors)
- The title of an academic or medical doctor (a person who holds a doctorate); used before or instead of the doctor's name.
The students asked to see Doctor Jones.
Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.
Well, Doctor, what do you think? Will he live?
1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, pages ix–x:They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.
Synonyms
- (abbreviated forms) Dr / Dr.
Derived terms
Translations
title of a doctor, used before the doctor's name
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 醫生／医生 (ji1 sang1) (physician), 博士 (yue) (bok3 si6) (academic)
- Hakka: 先生 (sîn-sâng)
- Hokkien: 先生 (zh-min-nan) (sian-siⁿ, sin-seⁿ, sian-seⁿ, sian-seng)
- Mandarin: 醫生／医生 (zh) (yīshēng) (physician), 博士 (zh) (bóshì) (academic)
- Esperanto: Doktoro
- Finnish: tohtori (fi), tri (fi)
- French: (used for both a man and a woman) le docteur (fr), (Quebec) la docteure (fr)
- German: Doktor (de) m, (female) Doktorin (de) f, (abbreviation) Dr. (de) m
- Italian: (please verify) il Dottor, (please verify) il Dottore
- Japanese: 博士 (ja) (はかせ, hakase, はくし, hakushi)
- Korean: 박사(博士) (ko) (baksa)
- Maltese: (used for both a man and a woman) (please verify) id-Dott.
- Marathi: डॉक्टर (ḍŏkṭar)
- Portuguese: doutor (pt) m
- Romanian: Doctor m
- Russian: до́ктор (ru) m (dóktor) (used for both a man and a woman), д-р m (d-r) (abbreviation)
- Vietnamese: tiến sĩ (vi) (進士)
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See also
- (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), Madam (madam, ma'am); (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor) (Category: en:Titles)