doctor
noun /ˈdɒktə(r)/
/ˈdɑːktər/
(abbreviation Dr)
Idioms - a person who has been trained in medical science, whose job is to treat people who are ill or injured
- You'd better see a doctor about that cough.
- to ask/consult/visit your doctor
- The doctor prescribed antibiotics.
- The doctor told me to stay in bed.
- What does your doctor advise?
- Dr Staples (= as a title/form of address)
- He's training to be a doctor.
Wordfinder- A & E
- admit
- consultant
- doctor
- hospital
- ICU
- inpatient
- nurse
- operation
- ward
Wordfinder- cure
- doctor
- examine
- medicine
- patient
- practice
- prescribe
- receptionist
- specialist
- surgeon
Extra ExamplesTopics Medicinea1, Jobsa1- Anyone with a heart condition should consult a doctor before taking non-prescription medication.
- If you're worried about your blood pressure, ask your doctor.
- My mother never visited the doctor.
- Do doctors prescribe too many antibiotics?
- My doctor recommended that I incorporate soy into my diet.
- Doctors diagnosed kidney failure.
- Doctors recommended sea air.
- He left the hospital against doctor's orders.
- The doctor advised me to rest.
- The doctor will see you now.
- We called the doctor immediately.
- Who is your family doctor?
- You should register with a doctor as soon as possible.
- doctors who practise from home
- Why won't he go to the doctor?
- a hospital doctor
- She grew up in a family of medical doctors but became a physicist.
- He went to an eye doctor who told him it must be a migraine.
- The doctors and nurses restarted his heart.
- the relationship between doctors and patients
- Thank you, doctor.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- excellent
- good
- female
- …
- register with
- call
- fetch
- …
- a doctor’s appointment
- a doctor’s office
- a doctor’s surgery
- …
- doctor’sa place where a doctor sees patients
- an appointment at the doctor’s
- Why don't you go to the doctor's?
Extra Examples- The doctor's doesn't open until 9.
- Did you have to wait long at the doctor's?
- There's a doctor's on the High Street.
- She seemed worse, so I rang the doctor's.
- Call the doctor's for an appointment.
- She works at the doctor's in the village.
- Where's the nearest doctor's?
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- barber’s
- butcher’s
- chemist’s
- dentist’s
- doctor’s
- fishmonger’s
- florist’s
- greengrocer’s
- grocer’s
- hairdresser’s
- ironmonger’s
- jeweller’s
- newsagent’s
- optician’s
- stationer’s
- tobacconist’s
- travel agent’s
- a person who has received the highest university degree
- a Doctor of Philosophy/Law
- Dr Franks (= as a title/form of address)
- (especially North American English) used as a title or form of address for a dentist or vet see also spin doctor
Word OriginMiddle English (in the senses ‘learned person’ and ‘Doctor of the Church’): via Old French from Latin doctor ‘teacher’ (from docere ‘teach’).
Idioms
just what the doctor ordered
- (humorous) exactly what somebody wants or needs