Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who is trained and licensed to practice dentistry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One whose profession it is to clean and extract teeth, repair them when diseased, and extract teeth, repair, them when diseased, and replace them when necessary by artificial ones; one who practises dental surgery and mechanical dentistry; a dental surgeon.
Wiktionary
- n. A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person qualified to practice dentistry
Etymologies
- From French dentiste. (Wiktionary)
- French dentiste, from dent, tooth, from Old French, from Latin dēns, dent-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To see how different the results are compared to typical searches for local service providers such as a chiropractor or florist, take a look at current search results for the term dentist and you'll notice how significantly they differ from the news media and blog related posts currently showing for the term Copyright © 2000 - 2008 Planet Chiropractic.”
“The image of the dentist is a real photo, and the mouth is Nico's creation.”
“SIEGEL: Every visit to the dentist is an episode in the Stockholm Syndrome here, is what you're describing.”
“You can tell if a dentist is a gentle dentist just by how the cleaning is done.”
“He turned to ask his wife, Shannon Lawhorn, 29, whether their dentist is the only one near their home in Nelson County.”
“My own dentist is wonderful and has my highest recommendation.”
“Hey ...... answer that phone the dentist is calling about fixing your missing eye teeth.”
“Our dentist is a Dutchman, quiet, not exactly taciturn but his job is dentistry and he gets on with it.”
“I don't have dental insurance, but my dentist is less expensive than the insurance itself.”
“My dentist is always telling me to drink less coffee, though … and I think this would have the opposite effect!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dentist’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
vanish, number one, archangel, commodious, dominie, rubble, glisten, morose, spindle, ventilation, Blessed, christian and 503 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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occupations
actor, actress, archaelogist, soldier, cook, lawyer, gardener, grocr, bank official, barman, barmaid, baber and 50 more...
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work
director, president, chief, boss, consultant, adviser, assistant, advisor, specialist, manager, employee, counselor and 65 more...
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What's next here?
thunderhead, thundercloud, cumulus, cumulonimbus, fibrous, hazy, glaciated, cirrus, nimbus, meteorology, fahrenheit, thermoscope and 285 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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jamieb's Words
obsequious, whimsical, flagella, matrix, happy, pineapple, joy, ambulophobia, lysozome, time, yawn, fracture and 111 more...
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Quotidian words
a diary of sorts
crown, dentist, purple, anxiety, relief, day, garbage, cat, a, as, tidy, ha and 54 more...
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OM1 Lesson 1
locker, swim, lap, crazy, jump, into, ice, ice-cold, dentist, tooth, teeth, toothache and 14 more...
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d is for depressing!
dolorous, damaging, depressing, drab, dull, dumb, derelict, decaying, dubious, doubtful, dreadful, dangerous and 86 more...
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working for a living
playwright, bard, conductor, squire, professor, lackey, swashbuckler, corsair, apothecary, hangman, embalmer, executioner and 58 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dentist.
mollusque Gum-digger, drillmaster, detartrater, tooth-drawer. Aug 23, 2010
bilby I'm looking for some pejorative and funny terms for dentist for something I'm writing. Any suggestions? Aug 23, 2010