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flying doctor

flying doctor noun: a doctor who uses a light aircraft to visit patients, especially in remote and sparsely inhabited regions.

Noun

flying doctor (plural flying doctors)

  1. (Australia, especially) A doctor who uses a light aircraft to visit patients, especially in remote and sparsely inhabited regions.
    • In return for containing development to agreed areas, the conservancy offers clean water in the form of boreholes, medical care in the form of flying doctors, jobs in the form of rangers, a share of bushmeat every year, ready killed, plus meat gifted from the trophy hunters, at their discretion.2026 April 21, Cal Flyn, “On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife”, in The Guardian

flying doctor meaning in Tamil

flying doctor in Tamil

விரைவு மருத்துவர்

Forms of flying doctor

pluralflying doctors

Questions about flying doctor

What does flying doctor mean?
Flying doctor means a doctor who uses a light aircraft to visit patients, especially in remote and sparsely inhabited regions.
What is flying doctor in Tamil?
Flying doctor in Tamil is விரைவு மருத்துவர். See Flying doctor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is flying doctor?
Flying doctor is a noun.
What is the plural of flying doctor?
The plural of flying doctor is flying doctors.

Words near flying doctor in the dictionary

  1. flying disc
  2. flying disc golf
  3. flying discs
  4. flying disk
  5. flying disks
  6. flying doctor
  7. flying doctors
  8. flying dragon
  9. flying dragons
  10. Flying Dutchman
  11. Flying Dutchmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flying doctor (page history and authors); flying doctor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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