COUNTRY DOCTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does country doctor mean? 

• COUNTRY DOCTOR (noun)
  The noun COUNTRY DOCTOR has 1 sense:

1. a doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital

  Familiarity information: COUNTRY DOCTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTRY DOCTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

do country doctors still make house calls?

Hypernyms ("country doctor" is a kind of...):

general practitioner; GP (a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses)

 Context examples 

The trim Inspector Martin, the old, grey-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Wonderful!” said the country doctor.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)