dentist
[den-tist]
- a person whose profession is dentistry.
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Origin of dentist
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Examples from the Web for dentist
Contemporary Examples
And it goes beyond getting my teeth drilled at the dentist office—my dentist really likes classical music.
‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Inside Amazon’s Brave New World of Sex, Drugs, and Classical MusicKevin Fallon
December 23, 2014
And they saw him in his 60s, still making an audience howl with the “Dentist” number.
A New York alderman once said Petrosino “knocked out more teeth than a dentist.”
My father is 87 and he writes speeches in the dentist chair.
Their marriage is squally: Cristina had been a dentist in Mexico, but her qualification means nothing in Nebraska.
Historical Examples
He looked the picture of misery, and sat in the chair there, just as if he were at a dentist's.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2)Harry Furniss
A boy of medium height with a pretty face, the son of a dentist at Monteriano.
Where Angels Fear to TreadE. M. Forster
He was shabbily dressed, and she did not even know he was the son of a dentist.
Where Angels Fear to TreadE. M. Forster
A dentist's mirror is concave; he sees your teeth enlarged in it.
Common ScienceCarleton W. Washburne
Popenjoy ought to see a dentist, and I want to do a few things.
Is He Popenjoy?Anthony Trollope
dentist
- a person qualified to practise dentistry
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Word Origin
C18: from French dentiste, from dent tooth
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Word Origin and History for dentist
n.
1759, from French dentiste, from dent "tooth," from Latin dens (see tooth) + -ist.
Dentist figures it now in our newspapers, and may do well enough for a French puffer, but we fancy Rutter is content with being called a tooth-drawer ["Edinburgh Chronicle," Sept. 15, 1759].
Tooth-drawer is attested from late 14c.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
dentist
(dĕn′tĭst)- A person who is trained and licensed to practice dentistry.
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