name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
surgeon
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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UK: /ˈsɜːd͡ʒən/
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General-American: /ˈsɝd͡ʒən/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒən
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CMU ARPABET: S ER1 JH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: S ER1 JH IH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A surgeonfish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
a physician who specializes in surgery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico
Narrower terms: amputator, cosmetic surgeon, plastic surgeon, neurosurgeon, brain surgeon, Beaumont, William Beaumont, Carrel, Alexis Carrel, Cowper, William Cowper, De Bakey, Michael Ellis De Bakey, Gorgas, William Crawford Gorgas, Lister, Joseph Lister, Baron Lister, Parkinson, James Parkinson, Reed, Walter Reed
History
Etymology
Occupational surname from surgeon.
From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.
Across languages
Translations
130 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: kirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Arabic: جَرَّاح (jarrāḥ) — doctor who performs surgery
- Arabic: جَرَّاحَة (jarrāḥa) — doctor who performs surgery
- Arabic: جراح (jarrāḥ) — doctor who performs surgery
- Armenian: վիրաբույժ (virabuyž) — doctor who performs surgery
- Asturian: ciruxanu — doctor who performs surgery
- Asturian: ceruxanu — doctor who performs surgery
- Azerbaijani: cərrah — doctor who performs surgery
- Bashkir: хирург (xirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Belarusian: хіру́рг (xirúrh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Bengali: সার্জন (śarjon) — doctor who performs surgery
- Bulgarian: хиру́рг (hirúrg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Bulgarian: хиру́ржка (hirúržka) — doctor who performs surgery
- Burmese: ခွဲစိတ်ကုဆရာဝန် (hkwai:citku.hca.rawan) — doctor who performs surgery
- Burmese: ခွဲစိတ်ဆရာဝန် (hkwai:cithca.rawan) — doctor who performs surgery
- Catalan: cirurgià — doctor who performs surgery
- Catalan: cirurgiana — doctor who performs surgery
- Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏰᏠᎯ (didayetlohi) — doctor who performs surgery
- Chinese Mandarin: 外科醫生 /外科医生 (wàikē yīshēng) — doctor who performs surgery
- Czech: chirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Czech: chirurgyně — doctor who performs surgery
- Czech: chiruržka — doctor who performs surgery
- Danish: kirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Dutch: chirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Esperanto: ĥirurgo — doctor who performs surgery
- Esperanto: kirurgo — doctor who performs surgery
- Esperanto: ĥirurgiisto — doctor who performs surgery
- Esperanto: kirurgiisto — doctor who performs surgery
- Estonian: kirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Finnish: kirurgi — doctor who performs surgery
- French: chirurgien — doctor who performs surgery
- French: chirurgienne — doctor who performs surgery
- Galician: cirurxián — doctor who performs surgery
- Galician: cirurxiá — doctor who performs surgery
- Georgian: ქირურგი (kirurgi) — doctor who performs surgery
- German: Chirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- German: Operateur — doctor who performs surgery
- German: Wundarzt — doctor who performs surgery
- Greek: χειρουργός (cheirourgós) — doctor who performs surgery
- Ancient Greek: χειρουργός (kheirourgós) — doctor who performs surgery
- Hebrew: מְנַתֵּחַ (m'natéakh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Hindi: शल्यचिकित्सक (śalyacikitsak) — doctor who performs surgery
- Hindi: जर्राह (jarrāh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Hindi: सर्जन (sarjan) — doctor who performs surgery
- Hungarian: sebész — doctor who performs surgery
- Icelandic: skurðlæknir — doctor who performs surgery
- Indonesian: dokter bedah — doctor who performs surgery
- Indonesian: ahli bedah — doctor who performs surgery
- Irish: máinlia — doctor who performs surgery
- Italian: chirurgo — doctor who performs surgery
- Japanese: 外科医 (gekai) — doctor who performs surgery
- Japanese: 執刀医 (shittōi) — doctor who performs surgery
- Kalmyk: месллч (mesllç) — doctor who performs surgery
- Kazakh: оташы (otaşy) — doctor who performs surgery
- Kazakh: хирург (xirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Khmer: ពេទ្យវះកាត់ (pɛɛt vĕəh kat) — doctor who performs surgery
- Korean: 외과의사 (oegwauisa) — doctor who performs surgery
- Korean: 외과의 (oegwaui) — doctor who performs surgery
- Korean: 집도의 (jipdoui) — doctor who performs surgery
- Northern Kurdish: emeliyatker — doctor who performs surgery
- Northern Kurdish: kîrûrg — doctor who performs surgery
- Northern Kurdish: operator — doctor who performs surgery
- Northern Kurdish: cerah — doctor who performs surgery
- Northern Kurdish: birînsaz — doctor who performs surgery
- Kyrgyz: хирург (hirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Lao: ສັນຍະແພດ (san nya phǣt) — doctor who performs surgery
- Lao: ສັນລະຍະແພດ (san la nya phǣt) — doctor who performs surgery
- Latin: chīrurgus — doctor who performs surgery
- Latvian: ķirurgs — doctor who performs surgery
- Latvian: ķirurģe — doctor who performs surgery
- Lithuanian: chirurgas — doctor who performs surgery
- Macedonian: хирург (hirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Malay: pakar bedah — doctor who performs surgery
- Malay: ahli bedah — doctor who performs surgery
- Maltese: kirurgu — doctor who performs surgery
- Māori: tākuta poka — doctor who performs surgery
- Marathi: सर्जन (sarjan) — doctor who performs surgery
- Mongolian: мэс засалч (mes zasalč) — doctor who performs surgery
- Norman: seurgien — doctor who performs surgery
- Norwegian Bokmål: kirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Occitan: cirurgian — doctor who performs surgery
- Old Galician-Portuguese: celorgião — doctor who performs surgery
- Ossetian: хирург (xirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Pashto: جراح (jarrāh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Dari: جَرَّاح (jarrāh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Iranian Persian: جَرَّاح (jarrâh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Polish: chirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Polish: chirurżka — doctor who performs surgery
- Portuguese: cirurgião — doctor who performs surgery
- Romanian: chirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Russian: хиру́рг (xirúrg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Scottish Gaelic: lighiche — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: хѝрург — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: хиру̀ргиња — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: кѝрург — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: киру̀ргиња — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: hìrurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: hirùrginja — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: kìrurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Serbo-Croatian: kirùrginja — doctor who performs surgery
- Slovak: chirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Slovak: chirurgička — doctor who performs surgery
- Slovene: kirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Slovene: kirurginja — doctor who performs surgery
- Spanish: cirujano — doctor who performs surgery
- Spanish: cirujana — doctor who performs surgery
- Spanish: quirurgo — doctor who performs surgery
- Swahili: mpasuaji — doctor who performs surgery
- Swedish: kirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Tagalog: siruhano — doctor who performs surgery
- Tagalog: maninistis — doctor who performs surgery
- Tajik: ҷарроҳ (jarroh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Tatar: хирург (xirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Thai: ศัลยแพทย์ (sǎn-lá-yá-pɛ̂ɛt) — doctor who performs surgery
- Tibetan: གཤག་གཅོད་སྨན་པ (gshag gcod sman pa) — doctor who performs surgery
- Turkish: cerrah — doctor who performs surgery
- Ottoman Turkish: جراح (cerrah) — doctor who performs surgery
- Turkmen: hirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Ukrainian: хіру́рг (xirúrh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Urdu: جَرَّاح (jarrāh) — doctor who performs surgery
- Urdu: سَرْجَن (sarjan) — doctor who performs surgery
- Uyghur: خىرۇرگ (xirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Uzbek: jarroh — doctor who performs surgery
- Uzbek: xirurg — doctor who performs surgery
- Vietnamese: bác sĩ phẫu thuật — doctor who performs surgery
- Walloon: cérudjin — doctor who performs surgery
- Walloon: cérudjinne — doctor who performs surgery
- Welsh: llawfeddyg — doctor who performs surgery
- Yakut: хирург (qirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
- Yiddish: כירורג (khirurg) — doctor who performs surgery
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