Doctor — English Dictionary

Noun

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

   Examples

   The students asked to see Doctor Jones.

   Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.

   More examples (2)

   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.

Noun

1. (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching

   Synonyms

   Doctor of the Church

   Broader terms

   theologiantheologisttheologizertheologiser

   Examples

   the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages