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noun
A female doctor, chiefly a physician.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, obsolete, rare
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Synonyms: doctoress//doctress, Drss.
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noun
A female teacher.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
The title of a female doctor, chiefly a physician.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Synonyms: Drss.
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noun
A protagonist of the television series Doctor Who (called the Doctor) who is female.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, slang
Topics: lifestyle
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History
From Middle English doctrice, from Latin doctrīx (“a female teacher”), feminine form of doctor (“a teacher”). The "female physician" sense is from the English doctor (which is from the Latin doctor) medical sense, analyzed as a feminine form of the English word. By surface analysis, doc(tor) + -trix.
Learned borrowing from Latin doctrīx (“a female teacher”), the female equivalent of doctor, by analogy with English Doctor.
