psychiatrist
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From psychiatry + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psychiatrist (plural psychiatrists)
- (medicine) A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
- Synonym: (archaic) psychiater
- 1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time:
- Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”
- 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]doctor specializing in psychiatry
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