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doctorhood

doctorhood

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The state of being a person who treats sick people
  • noun
  • /ˈdɒktərhʊd/
: condición de doctor
  • The training to reach doctorhood requires extensive education and practical experience.

Examples

  • We'll see if your tune's the same when Billy returns home dead because of your secrecy, and you're drummed out of doctorhood and forced to scrape the skitter out of bent cows, which is all you were ever really fit for anyway, oh we all know.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • He takes great pride in his doctorhood, always striving to help his patients to the best of his ability.

  • After years of hard work and dedication, she finally achieved doctorhood and began her medical career.

Surface Forms

doctorhood singular
doctorhoods plural

Morphology

doctorhood = doctor (transparent) = doctor + hood

The formation is a straightforward addition of the productive suffix '-hood' meaning 'state or condition' to 'doctor', so the meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Doctorhood comes from doctor and the ending -hood. Doctor originally meant 'teacher', and -hood is the same ending in childhood and brotherhood that shows a 'state'. So doctorhood means the 'state of being a doctor'.