docteur

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔk.tœʁ/
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Noun

docteur m (plural docteurs, feminine docteur or (especially Canadian) docteure or (dated) doctoresse or (slang) docteuse)

  1. a doctor (physician)
    Synonyms: toubib, médecin
    • 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:
      Je suis le docteur Pipo, Pipo.
      Je répare les pianos.
      Piano ! Piano ! Écoute-nous !
      Parle-nous ! Réponds-nous !
      I am Dr. Pipo, Pipo.
      I fix pianos.
      Piano! Piano! Listen to us!
      Talk to us! Answer us!
  2. a doctor (person who has attained a doctorate), especially a male doctor

Usage notes

Unlike monsieur or madame, when used as a title in a sentence docteur takes the definite article: j'ai parlé avec le docteur Tremblay. In French, docteur is much less used as a title with the name of holders of academic doctorates than Doctor is in English.

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin doctor, see doctor, doctur, etc.

Noun

docteur oblique singularm (oblique plural docteurs, nominative singular docteurs, nominative plural docteur)

  1. doctor (medical practitioner)

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