OCULIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oculist mean? 

• OCULIST (noun)
  The noun OCULIST has 2 senses:

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

2. a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye

  Familiarity information: OCULIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCULIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

oculist; optometrist

Hypernyms ("oculist" is a kind of...):

specialiser; specialist; specializer (an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning)

Derivation:

oculus (the organ of sight)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

eye doctor; oculist; ophthalmologist

Hypernyms ("oculist" is a kind of...):

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Instance hyponyms:

Hermann Snellen; Snellen (Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908))

 Context examples 

He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)