How to spell doctor

Doctor is spelled D-O-C-T-O-R.

hear itdoc·tor/'dɑktər/nounRules and real life

What it means: A medical professional.

In a sentence: The doctor helps sick people feel better.

Same family: doctors, doctor's, doctorate, doctoral, physician. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Doctor comes from the Latin word *doctor*, meaning 'teacher,' because early doctors were learned scholars. Later, the word became closely linked to people trained in medicine, but it is still used in academic titles like Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

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