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Doctor

nountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United States

The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.

noun

  1. 1

    The title of an academic or medical doctor; 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?

    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.

Forms

plural
Doctors
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).