English word senses marked with topical category "Doctor Who"
Parent categories: British fiction, Science fiction, Television, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Broadcasting, Mass media, Artistic works, Genres, Media, Telecommunications, Culture, Art, Entertainment, Communication, Technology, Society
Total 22 word senses
- Dalek (Noun) A member of a species of extraterrestrial cyborg mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and their fanatical obsession with exterminating other, non-Dalek beings.
- Dalek voice (Noun) A harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.
- Doctor Whovian (Noun) Synonym of Whovian.
- Doctor Whovian (Adjective) Synonym of Whovian.
- Janto (Proper name) The romantic pairing of the characters Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones from the television series Torchwood.
- NuWho (Proper name) A revival of the Doctor Who universe, launched in 2005, after cancellation of the previous series in 1989.
- Superwholock (Proper name) An amalgamate fandom of the television series Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock, often characterized by crossover fanworks with characters and plot elements from all three.
- TARDIS (Proper name) The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.
- TARDIS blue (Noun) The dark blue color of a traditional police box.
- TARDIS blue (Adjective) Of this dark blue color.
- Tardis-like (Adjective) Resembling the TARDIS in character or manner, as in appearing like a British police box, being unexpectedly capacious, or providing an immersive view of history.
- Trock (Noun) A genre of music produced by fans of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, characterized by lyrics about its characters, settings, and plot elements.
- Who (Proper name) The television show Doctor Who.
- Who-athon (Noun) A marathon of the British science-fiction series Doctor Who.
- Wholock (Proper name) A genre of chiefly fan-created crossover fiction blending characters, settings, and plot elements from the Sherlock Holmes stories (typically the BBC series Sherlock) and the television series Doctor Who.
- Whoniverse (Proper name) The universe in which the television series Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as related books, comics and other stories, are set.
- Whoniverse (Proper name) The totality of all things connected to the series Doctor Who, including the fictional universe which is its setting, the real-world sets in which it is filmed, its actors and fandom, etc.
- Whovian (Noun) A fan of the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who.
- timelord (Noun) A person who has mastered time travel.
- transmat (Noun) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
- transmat (Verb) To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.
- vworp (Interjection) Representing the sound made by teleporting or dematerialising/rematerialising.
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