psychiatrist

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English

Etymology

From psychiatry +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/
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Noun

psychiatrist (plural psychiatrists)

  1. (medicine) A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
    Synonym: (archaic) psychiater
    • 1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time:
      Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”
    • 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times‎:
      Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.

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