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Country Doctor

Definition: Country Doctor

Country Doctor

Noun

1. A doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital; "do country doctors still make house calls?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Country Doctor

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Like I knew what I was doing when I chose this townwith the country doctor from hell! (Arachnophobia; writing credit: Don Jakoby; Al Williams)

I'm not a magician, Spock; just an old country doctor. (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton)

Movie/TV Titles

The Country Doctor (1936)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Country Doctor

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (reference)

  • House Calls: The Memoirs of a Country Doctor (reference)

  • Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels & Stories : Deephaven a Country Doctor; The Country of the Pointed Firs; Stories & Sketches (Library of America College Editions) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Country Doctor

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

The Country Doctor, or Farrier turned Tooth Drawer. / [James Wilson]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ayer's cathartic pills (The country doctor). Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Country Doctor

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

country doctor

15

country doctor seattle

5

country doctor pipe tobacco

3

country doctor museum

2

country doctor year

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Country Doctor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-n-o-o-o-r-r-t-t-u-y"

-4 letters: conductor.

-5 letters: corduroy, cryotron.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Country Doctor


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 75 6E 74 72 79      44 6F 63 74 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01000100 01101111 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#99 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0075 006E 0074 0072 0079      0044 006F 0063 0074 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378187808684912388169868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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