"the good doctor" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-the good doctor.ogg [Australia] Forms: the good doctors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} the good doctor (countable and uncountable, plural the good doctors)
  1. (idiomatic) An honorific for a doctor, especially for a doctor of medicine (a physician) or for Dr. Samuel Johnson. Tags: countable, idiomatic, uncountable Hypernyms: doctor Related terms: good doctor
    Sense id: en-the_good_doctor-en-noun--YUV4ODV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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