dentist

Borrowed from French dentiste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛntɪst/

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dentist (plural dentists)

1. A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:

     It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

   • 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema‎^[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:

     Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

2. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of Dengist.

• antidentite
• dental
• denture

• orthodontics
• toothpuller

• distent, stinted

From French dentiste.

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈtɪst/

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• Hyphenation: den‧tist

dentist m (plural dentisten, diminutive dentistje n, feminine dentiste)

1. dentist

• tandarts

Borrowed from French dentiste, German Dentist.

• IPA^(key): /denˈtist/

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dentist m (plural dentiști, feminine equivalent dentistă)

1. dentist

   Synonyms: stomatolog, odontoiatru

• dentistică

• dinte

• “dentist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025