Doctor

doctor English Pronunciation en en-us-Doctor.ogg US Proper noun 1 en Fremantle Doctor. Noun The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name. en The students asked to see Doctor Jones. en Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure. en Well, Doctor, what do you think? Will he live? 3rd ix–x 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. Usage notes In the U.S. and Canada, lawyers are typically not address as "Doctor" even though they technically hold a doctorate. Conversely, medical doctors, dentists and veterinarians elsewhere in the Anglosphere are usually addressed as "Doctor" even though they do not have doctorates. Synonyms abbreviated forms Dr / Dr. Derived terms en Doctor Atkins Doctor Frankenstein Doctor Feelgood Translations title of a doctor, used before the doctor's name Chinese: Cantonese: yue 醫生 ji1 sang1 physician, yue 博士 bok3 si6 academic Hakka: hak 先生 sîn-sâng Hokkien: nan-hbl 先生 sian-siⁿ, sin-seⁿ, sian-seⁿ, sian-seng Mandarin: cmn 醫生 yīshēng physician, cmn 博士 bóshì academic Esperanto: eo Doktoro Finnish: fi tohtori, fi tri French: used for both a man and a woman fr docteur le docteur, Quebec fr docteur la docteure German: de Doktor m, female de Doktorin f, abbreviation de Dr. m Italian: it Dottor il Dottor, it Dottore il Dottore Japanese: ja 博士 はかせ, hakase, はくし, hakushi Korean: ko 박사(博士) Maltese: used for both a man and a woman mt Dott. id-Dott. Marathi: mr डॉक्टर Polish: pl doktor m-pr Portuguese: pt doutor m Romanian: ro Doctor m Russian: ru до́ктор m (used for both a man and a woman), ru д-р m abbreviation Vietnamese: vi tiến sĩ (vi 進士) See also en terms of address German Noun m,,en:-[colloquial]:es[archaic] in Doktor