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name
A nickname for a medical doctor, a person with an advanced educational degree, or a learned person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A common form of address for combat medics, especially naval hospital corpsmen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Initialism of Department of Commerce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A doctor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, plural-normally
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A documentary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: docu, doccie, doco
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of doctorate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Doc Marten shoe or boot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally, slang
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several controlled designations of origin for wine, cheese, or other products
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: AOC
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several controlled designations of origin for wine, cheese, or other products:
Initialism of Denominazione di origine controllata.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: AOC
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several controlled designations of origin for wine, cheese, or other products:
Initialism of Dénomination d'origine contrôlée.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: AOC
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several controlled designations of origin for wine, cheese, or other products:
Initialism of Denominação de Origem Controlada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: AOC
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Initialism of drug of choice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Initialism of Department of Corrections.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Initialism of dissolved organic carbon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: executive department
noun
a licensed medical practitioner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: doctor, physician, MD, Dr., medico
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: medical practitioner, medical man
Narrower terms: abortionist, allergist, angiologist, extern, medical extern, gastroenterologist, general practitioner, GP, hakim, hakeem, house physician, resident, resident physician, intern, interne, houseman, medical intern, primary care physician, quack, specialist, medical specialist, surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon, vet, Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd, Avicenna, ibn-Sina, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, Barany, Robert Barany, Bartholin, Caspar Bartholin, Bruce, David Bruce, Sir David Bruce, Crohn, Burrill Bernard Crohn, Down, John L. H. Down, Eijkman, Christiaan Eijkman, Fallot, Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot, Gilbert, William Gilbert, Harvey, William Harvey, Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin, Huntington, George Huntington, Jacobs, Aletta Jacobs, Jenner, Edward Jenner, Klinefelter, Harry F. Klinefelter, Harry Fitch Kleinfelter, Lozier, Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier, Manson, Sir Patrick Manson, Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer, Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, Roget, Peter Mark Roget, Ross, Sir Ronald Ross, Rush, Benjamin Rush, Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer, Shaw, Anna Howard Shaw, Simpson, Sir James Young Simpson, Sydenham, Thomas Sydenham, English Hippocrates, Willebrand, von Willebrand, E. A. von Willebrand, Erik von Willebrand, Erik Adolf von Willebrand
History
From doctor by shortening.
Clipping of doctor.
Clipping of document.
Clipping of documentary.
Clipping of doctorate.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
