dentist

Synonyms for dentist

noun one who practices dentistry

1759, from French dentiste, from dent "tooth," from Latin dens (see tooth) + -ist.

Tooth-drawer is attested from late 14c.

He looked the picture of misery, and sat in the chair there, just as if he were at a dentist's.

A boy of medium height with a pretty face, the son of a dentist at Monteriano.

He was shabbily dressed, and she did not even know he was the son of a dentist.

A dentist's mirror is concave; he sees your teeth enlarged in it.

Popenjoy ought to see a dentist, and I want to do a few things.

Dear me, so it was, and he looked so down in the mouth he might have been a dentist.

The horse drew up at the home of Doctor Stillwell, the dentist.

You want the dentist to go over them to find what is the matter, do you?

The dentist peered at it, inserted his forceps and set to work.

The undertaker, the dentist, the ice-man, the retail shoe man are under the ban.