Definitions

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

  • noun A surgeon.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A surgeon.

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

  • noun obsolete A surgeon.

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  • noun archaic A doctor or surgeon.

Etymologies

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

[Middle English cirurgien, from Old French, from Latin chīrurgia, surgery; see surgery.]

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  • cognate to SBC hirurg

    May 1, 2009