general practitioner

American  

noun

1. a medical practitioner whose practice is not limited to any specific branch of medicine or class of diseases. G.P.

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general practitioner British  

noun

1. Informal name: family doctor, GP. a physician who does not specialize but has a medical practice ( general practice ) in which he deals with all illnesses

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Etymology

Origin of general practitioner

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

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general practitioner

An estimated one in seven people have used AI for a health-related question instead of seeing a general practitioner.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

In “Doc Martin,” Clunes played a brilliant London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and becomes a general practitioner in the Cornwall fishing village where he spent summers as a child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026

After eight years as a general practitioner in some of Thailand's poorest and most remote regions, he obtained a master's degree and PhD in anthropology at Harvard University.

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

The Medical Board of Australia found his actions were inappropriate and ordered that the general practitioner undergo ethics, privacy and social media training.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025

So he sat down and, in his free evenings and weekends, wrote an eight-hundred-page textbook on the subject, painstakingly reviewing the available evidence for the most common problems a general practitioner might encounter.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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• family doctor

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