Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who is trained and licensed to practice dentistry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person qualified to practice dentistry

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French dentiste, from dent, tooth, from Old French, from Latin dēns, dent-; see dent- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French dentiste.

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    August 23, 2010

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