Usually means: Professional trained to provide healthcare.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word doctor:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. doctor, the doctor: Merriam-Webster
  2. Doctor, doctor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doctor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doctor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Doctor, doctor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doctor, doctor: Wordnik
  7. doctor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Doctor, doctor: Wiktionary
  9. doctor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doctor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doctor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Doctor, doctor: Dictionary.com
  13. doctor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. doctor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DOCTOR, Doctor (Doctor Who), Doctor (Star Trek), Doctor (band), Doctor (cocktail), Doctor (comics), Doctor (disambiguation), Doctor (film series), Doctor (game), Doctor (medicine), Doctor (novel series), Doctor (title), Doctor, The Doctor (Beenie Man album), The Doctor (Cheap Trick album), The Doctor (Doctor Who), The Doctor (Mary Wells song), The Doctor (Once Upon a Time), The Doctor (Soundtrack), The Doctor (Star Trek), The Doctor (The Doobie Brothers song), The Doctor (disambiguation), The Doctor (film), The Doctor (nickname), The Doctor (painting): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Doctor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. doctor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. doctor: Rhymezone
  19. doctor, doctor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. doctor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DOCTOR: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Doctor, Doctor, Doctor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. doctor: FreeDictionary.org
  24. doctor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. doctor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Doctor, doctor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. The Doctor, The doctor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  28. doctor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doctor: Global Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Doctor (disambiguation), Doctor (medicine), doctor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Doctor (disambiguation), Doctor (medicine), doctor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. doctor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Doctor: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Doctor: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Doctor: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  7. Doctor (disambiguation), Doctor (medicine), Doctor (title), doctor: Medical dictionary
  8. Doctor: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. doctor: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Doctor: Easton Bible
  2. Doctor: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. doctor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Doctor: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Doctor, doctor: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Doctor: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See doctoral as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
noun:  A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
noun:  A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
noun:  A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
noun:  (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
noun:  (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
noun:  A fish, the friar skate.
noun:  (obsolete, nautical, slang) A ship's cook.
verb:  (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
verb:  (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
verb:  (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
verb:  (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
verb:  (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
verb:  (transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.
noun:  The title of an academic or medical doctor (a person who holds a doctorate); used before or instead of the doctor's name.

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