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
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Examples
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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.
Chiropractic News 2008
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The image of the dentist is a real photo, and the mouth is Nico's creation.
Digging in to the donor details at Kiva.org - Boing Boing 2009
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He turned to ask his wife, Shannon Lawhorn, 29, whether their dentist is the only one near their home in Nelson County.
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SIEGEL: Every visit to the dentist is an episode in the Stockholm Syndrome here, is what you're describing.
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You can tell if a dentist is a gentle dentist just by how the cleaning is done.
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The image of the dentist is a real photo, and the mouth is Nico's creation.
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SIEGEL: Every visit to the dentist is an episode in the Stockholm Syndrome here, is what you're describing.
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The image of the dentist is a real photo, and the mouth is Nico's creation.
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The image of the dentist is a real photo, and the mouth is Nico's creation.
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My own dentist is wonderful and has my highest recommendation.
Dental Tourism 2010
bilby commented on the word dentist
I'm looking for some pejorative and funny terms for dentist for something I'm writing. Any suggestions?
August 23, 2010
mollusque commented on the word dentist
August 23, 2010