Dentist Meaning
/ˈdɛntɪst/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
nounDeliberate misspelling of Dengist.
Sentence Examples
You ought to see a dentist.
The generous dentist contributed some two billion yen to charity.
She scheduled an appointment to see her dentist next week.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ carefully examined my gums and filled two small cavities.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You ought to see a ____.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree French dent Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French dentistebor. English dentist Borrowed from French dentiste.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ carefully examined my gums and filled two small cavities.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You ought to see a ____.