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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dentist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
find
▪ The General Medical Council should find itself a good dentist and get some teeth.
▪ If you could find his dentist, he could probably identify him.
go
▪ She leaves, he believing she is going to the dentist.
▪ He points out that the process is about as pleasant as going to the dentist.
▪ We estimated that on an average working day about 650,000 people saw their family doctor and another 300,000 went to the dentist.
▪ I still don't enjoy going to the dentist but I have to admit that the modern men are wonderful.
▪ TRANSEN-DENTALS I went to the dentist for the annual scale and polish.
visit
▪ It was aimed at teaching children correct diet, oral hygiene instruction and the importance of visiting the dentist.
▪ Protect your teeth and gums by eating a well-balanced diet and visiting your dentist regularly.
▪ You are likely to find that you need more fillings when you visit the dentist.
▪ Those who have lost their teeth and wear dentures should still visit their dentist every six months.
▪ If you have any queries your pharmacist will be pleased to give advice and may also suggest that you visit your dentist.
▪ He was due to visit the dentist on Saturday.
▪ People who can't afford private treatment will be forced to visit school dentists or mobile dental surgeries.
▪ Looking after yourself ... visiting the dentist.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm going to the dentist this afternoon.
▪ I hate going to the dentist's.
▪ My dentist told me I shouldn't eat so much chocolate.
▪ You should visit the dentist twice a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Already 60% of dentists in Oxfordshire are in private practise.
▪ Ask your dentist or dental hygienist for advice on using floss.
▪ Does he believe this stricture should also apply to lawyers, doctors and dentists?
▪ Forensic dentists will assist if intact teeth are found.
▪ My cabbie turned out to be an out-of-work dentist, and I couldn't quarrel with his diagnosis.
▪ My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties.
▪ See your dentist Regular checkups with the dentist are essential for everybody.
▪ You're trying to take it away with all these dentists and bone men and switching her side in bed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dentist

Dentist \Den"tist\, n. [From L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dentiste. See Tooth.] One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dentist

1759, from French dentiste, from dent "tooth," from Latin dens (see tooth) + -ist. \nDentist figures it now in our newspapers, and may do well enough for a French puffer, but we fancy Rutter is content with being called a tooth-drawer ["Edinburgh Chronicle," Sept. 15, 1759].\n\nTooth-drawer is attested from late 14c.

Wiktionary
dentist

n. A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry.

WordNet
dentist

n. a person qualified to practice dentistry [syn: tooth doctor, dental practitioner]

Wikipedia
Dentist

A dentist, also known in the U.S. as a dental surgeon, is a surgeon who specializes in dentistry—the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aids in providing oral health services. The dental team includes dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental technicians, and in some states, dental therapists.

Dentist (disambiguation)

A dentist is a practitioner of dentistry—a branch of medicine pertaining to the oral cavity.

It could also refer to:

  • The Dentists, a British band active in the 1980s and 1990s
  • The Dentist, a 1996 horror film
    • The Dentist 2, a 1998 sequel to the aforementioned film
  • The Dentist (1932 film), a comedic short starring W. C. Fields
  • "Dentist" (Adventure Time), an episode of an animated series
Dentist (Adventure Time)

"Dentist" is the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Steve Wolfhard, from an outline by Herpich, Wolfhard, Adam Muto, Kent Osborne, Jack Pendarvis, and Pendleton Ward. The episode debuted on November 28, 2014 and guest stars Lucy Lawless, Collin Dean, and Andy Daly.

The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Finn has a tooth ache, so he visits the dentist, a group of ants led by General Tarsal (voiced by Lucy Lawless), who provide dental care in exchange for a tour of duty. However, Finn soon finds himself partnered up with Tiffany (voiced by Collin Dean), who constantly tries to kill him so that he may become Jake's best friend.

Wolfhard had originally developed the premise for "Dentist" before he abandoned it. The episode idea was then substantially revised by Herpich. Upon its airing, it was seen by 1.40 million viewers, and received mixed reviews from critics. It was also the subject of a minor controversy, because one of the characters in the episode is named Lt. Gamergate (in reference to a type of ant). Some fans mistook this to be a reference to the Gamergate controversy.

Usage examples of "dentist".

After the failure of Dentist and the fumbling of Baseplate, he decides to migrate with the Visigoths.

Another accident occurred when Flossie Devine, in a Dancing Trout station wagon late at night on her way back from a Capital City dentist, swerved to avoid a mammoth tumbleweed loping across the highway and wound up in a ditch with her new bridgework in her lap.

They also talk about no tipping, no jukeboxes and no carhops and that they have dentists, salesmen, farmers and veterinarians running their units.

I repeated the same conversation, with variations, in my chats with the three remaining dentists.

But I happen to be a dentist, like my friend who left me his collection, and Gobbo made an appointment for an extraction.

The psychic dentist had told me all about transcendental maxillofacial extractile vibrations, and the time travel guy had showed me a hand-lettered chart showing how the partial load setting affected future events.

He recommended that a forensic odontologist, or dentist, review the photographs.

Dolson here is not a forensic odontologist, forensic anthropologist, forensic pathologist, or a dentist, is she?

He is one of our odontologists, or forensic dentists, whose bad luck it is to be on call Christmas Eve.

The daughter of a dentist, Williams, who was briefly married to a football star back home, had always been an overachiever until moving to New York in 1987 to pursue an acting career.

Morton for not having gone to see the dentist and threatening him with gumboils, pyorrhoea, septic poisoning, indigestion and a complete set of false teeth if he persisted in behaving like a baby.

My semiannual visit to the dentist is as masochistic as I care to get.

He placed me in the hands of a skilful surgeon, who was at the same time a dentist.

Its urgent wail has changed from earlier days, when the drill resembled a giant cranefly, held firm in the mouth of its prey by an acolyte dentist till its appetite for pain was sated.

I am particularly afraid of strange dentists, so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order.