dentist
noun/ˈdɛntɪst/
Etymology Borrowed from French dentiste.
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A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
- It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:
- Oh, you couldn't be married to a dentist. Don't be silly.1999 January 20, Anthony Horowitz & al., "Death's Shadow", Midsomer Murders
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- Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
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Internet, Deliberate, Misspelling Deliberate misspelling of Dengist.
- Derived terms
- dentistess, dentist gold, dentistic, dentistical, dentistlike, dentistress, dentistry, nondentist, surgeon-dentist
- Related terms
- antidentite, dental, denture, orthodontics, toothpuller