good doctor
good doctor noun: an honorific form of address to a doctor.
Noun
good doctor (countable and uncountable, plural good doctors)
- An honorific form of address to a doctor.
- Doctor: ...So, good night;
My mind she has mated, and amaz’d my sight.
I think, but dare not speak.
Gentlewoman: Good night, good doctor.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount... - Sir Cred. Spare me, good Doctor!1734, James Miller (1734), The mother-in-law; or, The doctor the disease, London: J. Watts, Act IV, Scene 1, page 60
- Doctor: ...So, good night;
Forms of good doctor
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Questions about good doctor
- What does good doctor mean?
- Good doctor means an honorific form of address to a doctor.
- What part of speech is good doctor?
- Good doctor is a noun.
- What is the plural of good doctor?
- The plural of good doctor is good doctors.
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