- children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the doctor''s office
"the children explored each other''s bodies by playing the game of doctor"

- a licensed medical practitioner
"I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"

- a person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution
"she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

- (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their theological teaching
"the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages"

- give medical treatment to

- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"
"Repair my shoes please"

- alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
"Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. [Obs.]

"One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel." -- Bacon.

2. An academical title, originally meaning a man so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

"By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too." -- Shak.

4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

5. (Zoöl.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.]

Doctors' Commons
See under Commons.

Doctor's stuff
physic, medicine. G. Eliot.

Doctor fish
(Zoöl.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.]

2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]

1. To practice physic. [Colloq.]