Doctor

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Doctor (plural Doctors)

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

   The students asked to see Doctor Jones.

   Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.

   Well, Doctor, what do you think? Will he live?

   • 1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, pages ix–x:

     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.

• (abbreviated forms) Dr / Dr.

In the U.S. and Canada, lawyers are typically not address as "Doctor" even though they technically hold a doctorate. Conversely, medical doctors, dentists and veterinarians elsewhere in the Anglosphere are usually addressed as "Doctor" even though they do not have doctorates.

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), Madam (madam, ma'am); (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}