GENERAL PRACTITIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does general practitioner mean? 

• GENERAL PRACTITIONER (noun)
  The noun GENERAL PRACTITIONER has 1 sense:

1. a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses

  Familiarity information: GENERAL PRACTITIONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERAL PRACTITIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

general practitioner; GP

Hypernyms ("general practitioner" is a kind of...):

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "general practitioner"):

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

family doctor (a general practitioner who treats all the family members)

 Context examples 

But facts are facts, Watson, and, after all, you are only a general practitioner with very limited experience and mediocre qualifications.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hum! A doctor’s—general practitioner, I perceive,” said Holmes.

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