Oculist

Definitions: Oculist

Oculist

Noun

1. A person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses.

2. A medical doctor specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye.

Date "oculist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Etymology: Oculist \Oc"u*list\, noun. [Latin expression oculus the eye: compare to the French expression oculiste.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of consulting an oculist, denotes that you will be dissatisfied with your progress in life, and will use artificial means of advancement. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Medicine	Medical practitioner who limits his field to diseases and disorders of the eye and its appendages ; a physician that specializes in the study and treatment of defects and diseases of the eye. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Oculist

Synonyms: eye doctor (n), ophthalmologist (n), optometrist (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Remedy	Doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general practitioner, specialist; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech; osteopath, osteopathist; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist, oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist, public health specialist; dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack, exorcist; Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur, accoucheuse, midwife, oculist, aurist; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical nurse, monthly nurse, sister; nurse's aide, candystriper; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist, pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Oculist

English words defined with "oculist": Eye doctor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "oculist": Oculist. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Oculist" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (oculist, oculistic, ophthalmologist).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You must give me the name of your oculist. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Georg Bartisch von Königsbrück Burger Oculist Schnit ... / Hirschman sc.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		The Late Mr. George Critchett, Oculist.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Friderich Kühne, Barbiere, Oculist,... / J. Sandrart sculpsit.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		"a Literaty Oculist" / Stuff [pseud.] Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Oculist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Oculist" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	87.5%	7	133,076
Adjective (general or positive)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "oculist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		okulist (ophthalmologist), mjek sysh. (various references)

Arabic		‏طبيب العيون. (various references)

Bulgarian		очен лекар (eye specialist), окулист (eye doctor). (various references)

Chinese		眼医. (various references)

Czech		oftalmolog (ophthalmologist), oèní lékař (ophthalmologist). (various references)

Danish		øjenlæge (ophtalmologist). (various references)

Dutch		oogarts (ophtalmologist). (various references)

Esperanto		okulisto (ophtalmologist). (various references)

Faeroese		eygnalækni (ophtalmologist). (various references)

Farsi		چشم پزشک , عینک ساز (Optician, Optometrist). (various references)

French		oculiste (occulist). (various references)

Frisian		eachdokter (ophtalmologist). (various references)

German		Augenarzt (eye specialist, ophtalmologist, ophthalmologist), Okulist (ophtalmologist). (various references)

Greek		οφθαλμολόγος (eye specialist, ophthalmologist). (various references)

Hebrew		עינן, רופא עינים (ophthalmologist). (various references)

Hungarian		szemorvos, szemész (ophthalmologist). (various references)

Indonesian		dokter mata. (various references)

Italian		oculista (eye specialist, ophthalmologist). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		眼医者 (eye doctor), 目医者 (eye doctor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		めいしゃ (eye doctor). (various references)

Korean		안과의사. (various references)

Manx		lhee sooilley (optician). (various references)

Papiamen		okulista (ophtalmologist). (various references)

Pig Latin		oculistay

Portuguese		oculista (ophtalmologist, optician), oftalmologista (odalisque, ophtalmologist). (various references)

Romanian		oculist (oculistic, ophthalmologist). (various references)

Russian		окулист (ophthalmologist). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okulist. (various references)

Spanish		oculista (ophtalmologist). (various references)

Swedish		ögonläkare (ophtalmologist, ophthalmologist). (various references)

Thai		จักษุแพทย์. (various references)

Turkish		göz doktoru (ophthalmic optician, ophthalmologist). (various references)

Ukranian		окуліст. (various references)

Vietnamese		chuyên gia về mắt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "oculist": oculists. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Oculist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accolis, accurist, coulis, culist, occulist, oculent, Oculi, oculis, ocurist, Okulick, opulist, ouist. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "oculist" (pronounced 'Oc"u*list'): Acephalist, Agricolist, Amnicolist, Animalculist, Aquarellist, Arcubalist, Bibliophilist, Bibliopolist, Biblist, Bicyclist, Bimetallist, Blacklist, Cabalist, Carlist, Curialist, Cyclist, Funambulist, Glist, Homilist, Metallist, Monometallist, monopolist, Myropolist, Nemophilist, Nephalist, Newfanglist, Niellist, Noctambulist, OEnophilist, Ovulist, Parabolist, Perfectibilist, Pharmacopolist, Philatelist, Physoclist, Plebicolist, Populist, Reenlist, Ruricolist, sciolist, Scrupulist, Simplist, somnambulist, Speculist, Uckewallist, Violoncellist, Vocabulist, Zoophilist. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-l-o-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: clouts, coitus, coulis, locust, toluic.
	-2 letters: clits, clots, clout, coils, colts, culti, cults, cutis, ictus, locus, lotic, lotus, louis, louts, oculi, scout, stoic, sulci, toils, tolus.
	-3 letters: cist, clit, clot, coil, cols, colt, cost, cots, cult, cuts, list, lits, litu, loci, lost, loti, lots, lout, lust, oils, otic, oust, outs, scot, scut, silo.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-l-o-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: linocuts, oculists, outslick.
	+2 letters: cloudiest, columnist, custodial, dishclout, locutions, occultism, occultist, ocularist, outcavils, outclimbs, outslicks, poultices, suctional, suctorial, trochilus.
	+3 letters: acoustical, alacritous, calamitous, captiously, cautiously, colloquist, columbites, columnists, consulting, consultive, courtliest, dishclouts, elocutions, eulogistic, factiously, felicitous, flounciest, inoculants, inoculates, inosculate, licentious, locutories, meticulous, occultisms, occultists, ocularists, osculating, osculation, outslicked, patchoulis, pleustonic, populistic, portcullis, punctilios, sclerotium, slouchiest, solicitous, solicitude, touchlines, ultrasonic.
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