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pediatrician

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: pēdĭətrĭʹshən
  • Received-Pronunciation: /piːdɪəˈtɹɪʃ(ə)n/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: pē'diətrĭʹshən
  • US: /ˌpidi.əˈtɹɪʃ(ə)n/
  • CMU ARPABET: P IY2 D IY0 AH0 T R IH1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a specialist in the care of babies

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrist, paediatrician

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: specialist, medical specialist

Narrower terms: Hirschsprung, Harold Hirschsprung, Spock, Benjamin Spock

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English pediatric Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English pediatrician From pediatric + -ian.

Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: pediater — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Arabic: طَبِيب أَطْفَال (ṭabīb ʔaṭfāl) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܣܝܵܐ ܕܫܲܒ݂ܪܹ̈ܐ (āsyā d-šaḇrē) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܣܝܼܬܵܐ ܕܫܲܒ݂ܪܹ̈ܐ (āsītā d-šaḇrē) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Armenian: մանկաբույժ (mankabuyž) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Catalan: pediatre — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Chinese Mandarin: 兒科醫師 /儿科医师 (érkē yīshī) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Chinese Mandarin: 兒科醫生 /儿科医生 (érkē yīshēng) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Czech: pediatr — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Danish: børnelæge — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Danish: pædiater — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Dutch: kinderarts — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Dutch: pediater — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Faroese: barnalækni — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Finnish: lastenlääkäri — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Finnish: pediatri — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • French: pédiatre — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Galician: pediatra — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • German: Kinderarzt — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • German: Kinderärztin — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Greek: παιδίατρος (paidíatros) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Greenlandic: meeqqanut nakorsaq — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Gujarati: બાળચિકિત્સક (bāḷcikitsak) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Hungarian: gyermekorvos — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Icelandic: barnalæknir — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Indonesian: dokter anak — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Irish: péidiatraí — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Italian: pediatra — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Japanese: 小児科医 (shōnika-i) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Korean: 소아과 의사 (soagwa uisa) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Maltese: pedjatriku — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Maltese: pedjatrika — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Māori: mātanga aromātātahi — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Norwegian Bokmål: barnelege — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pediater — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: barnelege — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pediater — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Persian: دکتر کودکان (doktor-e kudakân) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Persian: پزشک کودکان (pezešk-e kudakân) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Polish: pediatra — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Portuguese: pediatra — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Romanian: pediatru — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Romanian: pediatră — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Russian: педиа́тр (pediátr) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Russian: де́тский врач (détskij vrač) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Serbo-Croatian: pedijatar — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Slovak: pediater — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Spanish: pediatra — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Swedish: barnläkare — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Swedish: pediatriker — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Thai: กุมารแพทย์ (gù-maan-rá-pɛ̂ɛt) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Ukrainian: педіа́тр (pediátr) — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Vietnamese: bác sĩ khoa nhi — physician who specialises in pediatrics
  • Vietnamese: bác sĩ nhi — physician who specialises in pediatrics
Real reading context

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